Sound Masking Services

Atlanta is buzzing with start-ups that thrive on creative thinking and industry innovation. These types of businesses often gravitate towards an open-office plan to help stimulate the open sharing of ideas, as well as accommodating the growth often associated with burgeoning companies. With all of the obvious benefits,  this environment does come with a negative side effect – poor acoustics.

Due to the lack of walls and partitions, coworkers are able to communicate and collaborate more, but these conversations can be an annoying distraction for those around them. To be able to keep this open setting without a decrease in productivity or free discussion, start-ups and other modern businesses have turned to Atlanta sound masking services.

Customer 1st Communications has partnered with Cambridge Sound to create the most efficient and affordable sound masking system on the market. Designed to cause minimal disruption to your office structure while offering maximum results in productivity, the QTPro™ Sound Masking System will seamlessly blend into the background to create an ideal sound environment for your office.

Instead of trying to absorb or block sound, the QTPro™ Sound Masking System works to cover noise through professionally engineered sounds that sound similar to water flowing or airflow. This means that rather than eliminating all of the hubbub in an environment; sound masking simply reduces the amount of area that the sounds of an office, human speech or typing remain to be intelligible and distracting while still allowing for communication among co-workers.

Benefits of Sound Masking Technology

Facilities most often opt to install a sound masking system to help to reduce disturbances for employees from the environment around them and to increase the confidentiality and privacy of information. With this subtle change to an environment, a company will subsequently experience an increase in employee productivity and job satisfaction.

Reduction in Distractions

In the average office environment, employees are interrupted every eleven minutes: including an email, a colleague or a nearby conversation. It then takes 23 minutes for this person to get back on track, giving him or her the opportunity to be interrupted twice more!

Not only are these distractions annoying, but they are costly to a business. To an average company of 100 employees making an standard salary, these disturbances can be responsible for a loss of up to $200,000 a year.

The QtPro™ Sound Masking System by Cambridge Sound can help reduce these interruptions from surrounding interactions by emitting a low-level hum comparable to the gentle whooshing of an HVAC. While barely noticeable itself, the sound is effective in covering unwanted noises, whether distractions or potentially overheard conversations, and reduces the radius of distraction dramatically.

Improved Speech Privacy

A survey by the Center for the Built Environment recently asked 25,000 workers in 2,000 different types of buildings what was the greatest issue for employees in office environments. The overwhelming answer from all staff was speech privacy, even from those that worked in private offices.

The QtPro™ Sound Masking System can solve this problem easily and differs from other systems by being able to mask sound more quietly. While you provide speech privacy with a jet engine outside a worker’s window, such a racket is counter-productive to productivity.

C1C’s careful installation will ensure the correct level of speech privacy through non intrusive sound that can be easily adjusted through an intuitive control unit. Available in three sizes, these QT Control Modules are specially optimized to operate up to 720 emitters, which can cover 72,000 square feet of office space.

The C1C Difference

Customer 1st Communications put their top priority in their name – creating and maintaining positive customer relationships. That’s why our expert technicians only work with the best equipment and will install a QtPro™ Sound Masking System by Cambridge Sound to your customized specifications.

The QtPro™ is the best sound masking system on the market, offering high-quality services combined with unique customizable features, such as:

Controlled Placement

Whether you’re looking for fewer distractions or more speech privacy, or both; it’s important to get the most effective system available. The QtPro™ offers a simple and scalable solution for any space.

This system can be installed in your existing office without issue, even through hard ceilings. Networked for easy control and system integration, the QtPro™emitters are discrete; in fact, they are smaller than a coffee cup to allow the hardware to specifically target areas without interference.

Consistent Masking

The QtPro™ System is able to provide consistent and efficient sound masking by using direct field masking rather than indirect. The key difference between the two is how sound is dispersed across the room.

With indirect field masking, speakers that are often the size of paint cans are installed in the ceiling to point upwards, sending the sound to “hit the desk” and bounce indirectly into the space. This creates unpredictable results and offers little control or consistency in the office.

The direct field masking offered by the QtPro™ System features small speakers that are installed to project sound from the ceiling rather than through it. This provides uniform masking that is easy to maintain and control.

This even masking also can also contribute to LEED certification and provides speech privacy that meets requirements and mandates for certain industries by such organizations as:

• HIPAA
• GLBA
• HCAHPS
• FERPA

Sound masking will additionally help reduce or eliminate potential HR issues that can occur when sensitive information is being shared in a public space. Instead of overhearing confidential client or employee information, the surrounding office mates will be focused on their own work.

Your system can even be set up in “zones” to ensure the correct amount of masking occurs in each area, with more masking occurring in open office areas as opposed to conference rooms or private offices.

You can even integrate the QtPro™ Sound Masking System with your current systems, allowing your lobby music and paging to run through a single solution.

Cost-Effective Privacy

The QtPro™ Sound Masking System is the most effective and least expensive system on the market. It is designed to be the fastest to install by reducing the need for expensive construction or sound blocking materials.

It is also most energy efficient system available, ensuring that your energy usage does not climb due to this new system. In fact, The QtPro™ consumes less than 27 watts of power per 72,000 square feet of space, keeping your environmental footprint and your bill small.

Content Employees

Studies have shown that after installing a QtPro™ Sound Masking System, employee concentration levels and short term memory improved greatly. Test subjects in a noisy office environment had a 7.8% word recollection, but those in an office with sound masking scored with 8.7% word recollection.

This ability to concentrate and focus combined with less distractions will give employees a great sense of accomplishment at the end of a workday. In fact, in the long run, workers with this kind of acoustic treatment experience less stress, while being able to facilitate more effectively problem solving.

These employees also make more ergonomic adjustments to their workstations, increasing their comfort and productivity even further. All of this means happier, healthier, and more focused workers – which is Customer 1st Communications’ goal with every project we complete.

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Resources

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Sound Masking 101
CSM Competitive Comparison Chart and FAQ