Plantronics Habitat Soundscaping

2018: Announcement

On December 12, 2018 the Plantronics company presented the solution Plantronics Habitat Soundscaping. According to the company, Plantronics Habitat Soundscaping integrates in itself the audio-and video records inspired by the nature, the "smart" acoustic card and the intellectual software which allow employees not to be distracted by a talk of colleagues in open space and positively influence their performance.

Along with advantages of the opened offices, in the company and economy of costs, they have such as improvement of collaboration also minuses. According to a research for December, 2018 Oxford Economics custom-made by Plantronics showed that employees in noisy spaces are most of all inclined to leaving within the next six months. Nearly two thirds of workers report that the lack of the quiet place where they could concentrate, negatively affects their performance and job satisfaction.

Habitat Soundscaping will recognize informal conversation and in real time adjusts the volume of the nature sounds broadcast via special loudspeakers. Service does them more silent in a zone of a conversation and increases volume in the next work areas that employees who need to concentrate were not distracted by foreign conversations. The solution relies on laws of biophysics and congenital aspiration of people to communication with the nature. For December, 2018 researches show that the jobs using references to the nature help to improve mood, a short-term memory and cognitive functions, reduce absences of employees by 10%, at the same time considerably increasing their performance and satisfaction with workflow. Besides, from the psychological point of view a system stimulates people subconsciously to lower a voice.