Is listening to music at work calming or distracting?

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  by Barb Hopkins

  I have always listened to music when I was working. Sometimes the music was piped in through the office P.A. system and other times it was through my own radio or CD player. At ...read more

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  by Kenneth Andrews

  I feel like a horrible old curmudgeon for saying this, but I find listening to music intensely distracting while I'm at work. I work in an office. In the sales part of an offic...read more

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  by Barbara Kasey Smith

  Is listening to music at work calming or distracting? I will have to say, "Listening to music while at work can be distracting to not only the employee, but if you're interviewi...read more

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  by Neil Dixon

  We all love a bit of music to listen to during the day. A good song can lift our mood and has a direct link to altering our emotional state for both feelings of elation and sadn...read more

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  by Eudiah Kamonjo

  They say that music is food for the soul. I do not totally disagree with this but then do we eat food throughtout the day-do we now? When i am working all i need is an interrupt...read more

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  by R Marie Taylor

  Just like cigarette smoke can irritate other people in an enclosed area, sound, even the wonderful sounds of great music can be a distraction, an irritant to someone that just d...read more

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  by Patrick Sills

  Whether or not music is calming or disruptive while performing job duties depends largely on the worker's personality and/or the ability to multi-task. For instance, some surge...read more

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  by Ian Black

  When it comes to the working environment, you are there to work, not to listen to music. Music, even though entertaining, can be distracting. I'm twenty years old. My favorite m...read more

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  by Emily Hall

  Before you know whether listening to music at work is calming or distracting, you must first consider all the factors. Firstly, what kind of work do you do? For artists, for e...read more

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  by Russell Reeder

  Listening to music at work can be whatever you make it. Depending on what kind of person you are you may be easily distracted by music. Also it depends on what type of music you...read more

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  by David Elder

  At the risk of offending those people who find it difficult to spend a single hour without the accompaniment of their favorite tunes, I would have to say that music has little o...read more

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  by David Lohrman

  It's difficult to determine if music is distracting or not, simply because it depends on the occupation. I can name a few where music enhances one's work, i.e. tatoo artist........read more

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  by Angelina Locke

  We all have those moments, when we hear a song; it can transport us back to times of pleasure and times of pain. Moments where all the troubles of the world disappear for two to...read more

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  by Lesley Aeschliman

  I have to admit that I had a hard time answering this question. But after careful consideration, and thinking about how the question relates to me, I ended up going with "distr...read more

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  by madhu73

  Music is calming provided you are listening and enjoying it. In todays age of fast life and multitasking, people are constantly juggling chores like reading and exercising, wat...read more

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