In every office, there are recurring personality types. Below, we introduce three common ones, explore how each responds differently to noise, and explain how this impacts not only individuals but the entire organization.
Die drei Personentypen sind
To make this more tangible, we’ll illustrate these types through three people.
It is extremely important to take individual measures for each personality type. Nothing is worse than assuming that no one in the office has a problem with noise just because you yourself are not sensitive to it or only spend occasional time in the open space. Therefore, the personality types are now described in more detail. We explain what matters most to each character and how to achieve it.
Martin is a salesperson. He fully expresses his emotions during sales calls and captivates his customers. Because he is passionate about his work, he gestures wildly during his phone calls and sometimes gets a little louder. Much to the annoyance of Amelie and her colleagues. They are irritated and Martin regularly receives grim looks. Other employees have repeatedly asked him to please lower his voice while on the phone. Now Martin no longer feels comfortable during his conversations. He has an uneasy feeling and no longer dares to fully express himself. But the suppressed voice and lack of passion leave their mark: customers are less enthusiastic and the closing rate drops. Martin is desperate. What should he do?
Amelie is a programmer. She needs to concentrate fully on her work and dislikes being distracted. Yet someone in the office does exactly that quite frequently: Martin, the salesperson. Amelie does not know what to do. Her only solution is to give Martin grim looks. The looks may not kill him, but they occasionally make him fall silent. However, the silence does not last long: the phone rings again and Martin cheerfully calls out, “Hello, Martin speaking, how can I help?” This does not make Amelie happy, as her focus drops significantly. She needs more time to complete her work and makes more mistakes.
Jonas is a team leader and organizational talent. He coordinates projects and keeps everything in view. Communication with the entire team is very important. However, he does not like speaking in the open office because he distracts everyone from their work and often receives a look from Amelie as well. Therefore, Jonas prefers to hold meetings in meeting rooms. But these are often occupied and need to be reserved in advance. For a two-minute conversation, Jonas finds the effort too great. His solution: to avoid disturbing anyone, he actually switches to emails. A study by the renowned Harvard University has shown that personal communication in open-plan offices decreases by 70%. Email and text messages are used more and more frequently. (1) The consequence: decisions now take much longer and Jonas sometimes misses deadlines. This cannot go on.
But there was a change in the office of the three. They now have phone booths and meeting booths from QuietOffice. In these acoustic booths, phone calls and meetings can be held without creating noise in the office. The noise is simply absorbed by the phone booth.
Martin’s sales rate has soared to previously unknown heights. When he has an important call, he simply goes into the phone booth (QuietOffice Phone). There, he can finally convince his customers with passion and enthusiasm. And the best part: no one in the office is distracted by his “noise.”
Amelie can now finally devote her full attention to her programming tasks. She makes faster progress and no longer makes annoying mistakes. When she faces a tricky task, she goes into the phone booth (QuietOffice Phone Premium) for a “focus session.” It is truly quiet there.
Jonas has his projects fully under control again. He no longer feels guilty because he is not distracting anyone. He simply meets his discussion partners in the meeting booth (QuietOffice Meet) and discusses everything important calmly and without causing distractions.
In summary, everyone benefits from more quiet in the office. Team cohesion increases and tensions decrease because no one is constantly disturbed. It is important to give each personality type space for their individual needs. QuietOffice creates this space with ingenious phone booths.
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