Wellbeing at new ways of working - acoustics

The world of work has changed for knowledge workers. Exchange and collaboration is enormously important as well as concentrated work to generate new ideas and foster innovation. But often it is not so easy in the open spaces of the new office areas. The article highlights the concerns of employees and their challenges to deal with all the noise on modern workplaces as well as the advantages these also have. In the first part will be shown what people need to feel good at work and to be productive and healthy. In the second part different design solutions are shown with examples how to solve the challenges concerning noise and control at your own workplace. It also will be discussed how architects and change manager could help by explaining and monitoring the change process, support the understanding and help to get through the difficult phases of transformations. Layout proposals and helpful product solutions will be shown, which help to reduce noise. Ideas are explained for workshop sessions to get a better understanding from the people involved and which also help to learn to deal with noise.