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Peace and quiet at work? Here are ten of the best and most far out solutions

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Any survey that sets out to establish what people believe cuts their productivity and annoys them most about their workplace invariably throws up the same result; the noise and distractions generated by other people. One of the most prominent of these was the Alcove system designed for Vitra by Ronan and Erwin Bouroullec in 2006.

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Some of the major examples included: Phone problems (long hold times, annoying hold music, getting disconnected, blind transfers, etc.) Employees that aren’t happy to see customers (rude, disaffected, unhappy, etc.) Having to repeat information to multiple agents or to the same agent.