Sound Management Advice
For Savvy Facility Managers
As a professional facility manager, you've always needed dependable resources to make your facility the best it can be. Today, your focus is on finding new ways to apply your skills. But you can only do so much to reduce costs. You must seek other ways to manage your facility to add value1.
Sound masking is proven to add value, because it addresses two of the biggest issues in workplace design: Noise and privacy levels. (If you manage a healthcare or financial facility, it may be incumbent upon you to provide speech privacy, as mandated by HIPAA or the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Your Lencore professional can provide you with details about meeting these requirements.)
If your facility already incorporates acoustical panels or ceiling tiles, you may think you have acoustics covered. But those remedies only go so far in controlling sound. To create true speech privacy and a comfortable work environment, sound that hasn't been completely blocked or absorbed must be 'covered' with masking.
You'll probably be surprised at the difference sound masking can make. It's a difference that has to heard. Fortunately, the facts that back up the benefits of masking are widely available:
- Productivity increases of three - 20 percent2
- Employee satisfaction and retention
- Financial return to the bottom-line
- For more facts, go to Speech Privacy: The Payoff
What do you need to know about good acoustics and masking, before you invest? Follow these links:
What You Should Know About Sound Masking & Good Acoustics
- Learn more about the ABCs of sound masking here
- Have a local Lencore representative give you a personal education! Contact Us
- Don't know if you need sound masking or acoustical panels? Read more here
- Figure the financial return on sound masking with Lencore's Cost/Benefit Matrix and ROI Calculator
If you're evaluating systems
- Be sure to use the right criteria. Read How to Evaluate a SM System: Buy Sound, Not Looks!
- Compare Lencore versus Other Systems
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1"Tomorrow's Facility Executive - Today," research by Building Operating Management (BOM), published in BOM, April 2005.2According to numerous independent test results.
