The next time your boss tells you to take off your headphones in the office, you should tell them this: According to a new study, half of people listen to music while they work AND it’s good for their productivity.
Researchers found people finished a task about three minutes faster when they were listening to music than when they weren’t. They say it’s because listening to music, quote, “Affects mood and mental and physical performance… [and] the music can function as a sort of ‘white noise,’ canceling out potentially distracting ambient noise.”
