This is how many coworkers are judging you for your music choices

This is how many coworkers are judging you for your music choicesThis is how many coworkers are judging you for your music choicesThere have been many studies that prove that listening to certain types of music at work can help increase productivity. But what kind of music encourages your coworkers to judge you for your tastes? Or if it is music being played on an office playlist do they perhaps not find it to be very productivity-inducing but rather more distracting?Well, Cloud Cover Music surveyed 1,005 employees and employers about workplace musics effect on their productivity, as well as the audio to which they preferred listening and found some very interesting facts.First of all,according to the study, the majority of people listened to music while they worked, with around 42% listening to some form of media the entire workday. Some offices do dictate theplaylist, but roughly 82% of employed people said they were allowed to listen to their own audio if they wanted. Nearly 80% o f those surveyed believes music does increase productivity while only 4.2% said it makes them less productive.As for what kind of music inspired the fruchtwein productivity, it was classic rock for the win followed by alternative, pop, and classical. The most distracting was found to be hip-hop. Take a look at the rest of the results below.Music brings people together and tears them apartAnd though music can bring people together it can also really tear them apart.Almost 59% of employees connected more easily with co-workers or superiors who shared their tastes in music, and employers agreed 65% connected more easily when tastes were shared.However,26% judged others for their music preferences and over a third believed their team was unified by their workplace playlist.Noise-canceling everythingOf course, there are also people who just use music or headphones so they dont have to interact with other humans all day. Over 55% of people used headphones at work regularly with 46% of t hem specifically using them to avoid conversations at work. Industries where people tended to use headphones to avoid human contact the most were government and public administration followed by transportation and warehousing, technology, scientific and marketing, and advertising. Check out the rest in the image below.