It goes without saying: COVID changed the world. However, something to consider is how the collective experience shifted people’s preferences and tolerance levels. Take workers returning to shared places of business, for instance. Once isolated at home with no other or only a handful of “co-workers,” these same individuals, once again, returned to shared and sometimes, open, office spaces. Normal and once innocuous noises like commercial printers and microwaves now somehow seemed louder, cutting through consciousness and impeding projects and focus.
Enter the world of acoustics, where office retrofits and isolated
spaces, such as ceilings, are here to save the day, helping to close off
open spaces, and cut down on sound transmission to improve worker
productivity and satisfaction.