Radio at work

Maccattack

My employer wont let us listen to the radio at work. syas its too distracting.

I say its stimulating and should be allowed.

are there any studies that prove me right, or indeed ... (shudder) wrong?

mick.fr

Maccattack wrote:

My employer wont let us listen to the radio at work. syas its too distracting.

I say its stimulating and should be allowed.

are there any studies that prove me right, or indeed ... (shudder) wrong?

Well even if there is a study that proves you are right, he is your boss :-)
So he is right anyway.

eth0_

I think it depends on your job. I work in I.T. in a bank and in a previous job, the tw*ts had the radio on all day and I found it incredibly irritating - especially suffering Gerry Ryan every morning. But in the place i'm in now we can listen with earphones, which is cool.

If you worked in a customer service sort of role I could understand why he doesn't want a radio on, it can be distracting and it's kind of rude if you call a company and you can hear the radio blaring in the background.

I remember back in college I got a part time job doing nights in the 3-com factory. No radio allowed. No personal stereo/mp3 players allowed. In a factory for 12 hours with no one near enough to you to have a chat. THat was definitely a case where the radio should have been allowed

gerrycollins

i can say for certain as a consumer that if i see or hear a radio in a public area i freak out

as for behind the scenes like a factory or office setting many companies allow a radio but only music not chat radio because chat radio leads to discussion among workers leading to lower production rate where as music (usually general chart) is not distracting and sometimes just loud enough to prevent workers from chatting

Wishbone Ash

It's difficult when one is 'forced' to listen to skanger channels such as 98FM or 104FM while at work. :eek:

leeroybrown

Personally, I prefer not to have a radio at work.

Maccattack

hmmm. yes well we all have opinions. but i was asking if anyone knows of an official study that i can reference.

Lump

No

BuffyBot

but i was asking if anyone knows of an official study that i can reference.

You don't reference. If your boss makes a desicion, it's pretty much put up and shut up in this kind of situation

HelterSkelter

Maccattack wrote:

My employer wont let us listen to the radio at work. syas its too distracting.

I say its stimulating and should be allowed.

are there any studies that prove me right, or indeed ... (shudder) wrong?

Your boss is right, it is distracting. There was a guy here who used to have Radio 1 on all day. It was like torture. Marion Funnican followed by Pat Kenny, John Creedon everyday. I ****ing hated coming into work. If people want to listen to radio that's what headphones are for.

Maccattack

BuffyBot wrote:

You don't reference. If your boss makes a desicion, it's pretty much put up and shut up in this kind of situation

says you. You wont get very far in life genuflecting for its duration.

I didnt ask for faint hearted opinions. I know there has been studies proving that listenning to the radio at work increases productivity but i cant find it. I thought someone here might know where to find one.

Waste of time that was.

Hagar

Perhaps your Boss is just too stingy to pay IMRO for the rights to play a radio in a place of work. It can cost a fair amount of money.

Dundhoone

Maccattack wrote:

says you. You wont get very far in life genuflecting for its duration.

I didnt ask for faint hearted opinions. I know there has been studies proving that listenning to the radio at work increases productivity but i cant find it. I thought someone here might know where to find one.

Waste of time that was.

Come on now people. Listen to what the OP is saying to you.
He doesnt want opinions on whether or not his boss is right.........he believes he is right and that radio will boost his productivity!!!

Of course he was not productive enough to google radio at work productivity.....so that brings its own questions.

I did google those words, and it threw up a few studies.......sadly im listenig to the radio and im too distracted to post them:p

Maccattack

I hope you dont plan on being a professional comedian. You'd starve.

Red Alert

I'd just have to have music. First job I worked in let anyone change the PA so you could put on radio or CD or whatever. Second job had a digital jukebox which was good and there was a CD player too if you brought in something really good.

Music services (like Muzak or XM) are much better than radio IMHO.

EDIT: Actually if you go to Muzak's site they should have some stuff on why music while you work is good.

Dundhoone

If you are listening to the radio, you are not concentrating on your work.

It appears that Extroverts find back ground music less distracting than introverts..... but that still means its distracting.

"The results showed that there was a detrimental effect on immediate recall on the memory test for both groups when music was played, and two of the three interactions were significant"
Music while you work: the differential distraction of background music on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts
Adrian Furnham *, Anna Bradley
Department of Psychology, University College London, UK

Thats just background music. A chat show would be hugely more distracting.

If you do any sort of work which requires that you engage the brain, radio is a no-no.