Music Enhances Employee Productivity

Moods and behavior are greatly influenced by music.  Employee productivity is influenced greatly by music.  Will installing an in ceiling radio inside your office lobby or inside your company’s pantry increase your employee’s performance thus resulting to greater productivity?  Although there not too many studies that prove that indeed music can influence one’s performance, there are still a lot of people who are doing great at what they do and would prefer listening to music while working.

Have you heard of the Mozart effect?  Let me quote it from lifehacker.com and it says “It suggest that listening to certain kinds of music—Amadeus Wolfgang's classical works, in particular—impacts and boosts one's spatial-temporal reasoning, or the ability to think out long-term, more abstract solutions to logical problems that arise.”  Different studies show that listening to Mazart songs does not increases one’s IQ but it induces a short-term improvement on the performance of certain kinds of metal tasks.

Does music really have a positive effect on the productivity of the employee?  A retail company tested the effects of music on their employees by giving out stereos to wear for four weeks while working.  After the trial they achieved a 10% increase in productivity from those who wore the stereos.  A similar study was conducted at University of Illinois and they found a 6.3% increase when compared with the no music control group.  In Canada, some software developers were tested and study show that they were at their lowest productivity when they had no background music to listen to.  It also showed that it took them more time to finish a task in the absence of music.  On the other hand, there was a positive mood change and enhanced perception when music was played while they were working.  Researchers from University of Windsor noted that this positive change in mood correlated with increased curiosity, which was an excellent thing to have when doing creative work.

Bottom line is, no matter how many times it is proven that music has indeed a correlation with employee’s productivity and performance, it still depends on the individual if he will be persuaded by the music or not.  Listen to music that will influence you positively.  Learn to read the lyrics first before listening to it.  These lyrics will enter your subconscious and will be stored there for a period of time.  So it is very important that you filter the music that you listen to.

Music is one of God’s greatest gifts to mankind and it will definitely help you be more productive.  Question is will you be influenced by it or not.