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As long as there is open offices there is a easy fix to lower pollution to 20% by doing home-office.

aaron695 7y ago
Offices are far more likely to have double glazing to remove the damageing noise like cars, so no. Plus working from home is known to also be damaging, so you've introduced a new hazard for no reason. ( And I know, the reader can work from home without the damage because 'they' are the exception to the rule )
tty2300 7y ago
I used to think my office was quiet until I got noise cancelling headphones. Now every time I take them off I am hit with a deafening ambiant noise which I think is a combination of the fans in peoples computers and the sound of cars making it through the building walls.
- davidivadavid 7y ago
  Same for a bunch of noise at home (mostly from the fridge).
- lupire 7y ago
  White noise is a good way to filter out spectral peaks that are more disturbing.
  - frosted-flakes 7y ago
    I prefer a pink noise myself. https://mynoise.net https://mynoise.net is great for this. There are loads of sound generators for different environments, each of which has sliders for each frequency. I sometimes use it when I have trouble falling asleep (I pin the site to my homepage on Android Chrome).
    - jdnier 7y ago
      Thanks. An interesting one: "Neuromodulator • A sound designed to squash down your tinnitus"
  - mgkimsal 7y ago
    frosted flakes mentioned pink noise; i recommend brown and/or grey noise. it really depends on the type of noise you're trying to counter, but these really helped me a lot with various types of road noise and lawnmower-style noise. pink, to my ears, is a bit thin/tinny, and doesn't assist much with my trigger points.
- rootusrootus 7y ago
  If your office has a significant amount of open space, chances are pretty good they're using white/pink noise generators to try and mask distracting sounds (conversations, etc). Last place I worked at had one big room that was a couple hundred feet square, and they had the noise generators cranked up so high that you couldn't successfully have a conversation with someone unless they were within about five feet of you. When I'd walk outside, it was a physical relief from the onslaught of white noise.

Offices are far more likely to have double glazing to remove the damageing noise like cars, so no. Plus working from home is known to also be damaging, so you've introduced a new hazard for no reason. ( And I know, the reader can work from home without the damage because 'they' are the exception to the rule )

tty2300 7y ago

I used to think my office was quiet until I got noise cancelling headphones. Now every time I take them off I am hit with a deafening ambiant noise which I think is a combination of the fans in peoples computers and the sound of cars making it through the building walls.

davidivadavid 7y ago
Same for a bunch of noise at home (mostly from the fridge).
lupire 7y ago
White noise is a good way to filter out spectral peaks that are more disturbing.
- frosted-flakes 7y ago
  I prefer a pink noise myself. https://mynoise.net https://mynoise.net is great for this. There are loads of sound generators for different environments, each of which has sliders for each frequency. I sometimes use it when I have trouble falling asleep (I pin the site to my homepage on Android Chrome).
  - jdnier 7y ago
    Thanks. An interesting one: "Neuromodulator • A sound designed to squash down your tinnitus"
- mgkimsal 7y ago
  frosted flakes mentioned pink noise; i recommend brown and/or grey noise. it really depends on the type of noise you're trying to counter, but these really helped me a lot with various types of road noise and lawnmower-style noise. pink, to my ears, is a bit thin/tinny, and doesn't assist much with my trigger points.
rootusrootus 7y ago
If your office has a significant amount of open space, chances are pretty good they're using white/pink noise generators to try and mask distracting sounds (conversations, etc). Last place I worked at had one big room that was a couple hundred feet square, and they had the noise generators cranked up so high that you couldn't successfully have a conversation with someone unless they were within about five feet of you. When I'd walk outside, it was a physical relief from the onslaught of white noise.