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Why is listening to music during working hours beneficial?

Listening to music while working.

Do you also notice that more and more people in offices listen to music while working? Listening to music during work hours is actually very beneficial, as research has shown that it improves concentration and also affects the quality of work done.

Listening to music during working hours is useful. Also while performing daily tasks, as it causes secretion dopamine, you hormone of good mood, which has a positive effect on our mood and consequently improves ours concentration.

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She conducted the study on workers in small computer companies Teresa Lesiuk, professor music therapy at the University of Windsor in Canada. She showed that those workers who listen to music while working, finish their work earlier than those who do not listen to music.

Listening to music while working raises our mood and consequently improves concentration.
Listening to music while working raises our mood and consequently improves concentration.

The deeper reason for this is yes in a positive mood we see more possibilities, while under stress we make decisions more hastily and our focus is narrowed. And the music it does not affect everyone equally. It had less impact on experienced employees and more on medium-skilled employees, while some newcomers described listening as disturbing.

But music has another positive effect. Our brains have two types of awareness, namely conscious and unconscious awareness. The latter is active even when we are performing a certain task, and everyone gets distracted by it noise from the surroundings. If we have headphones on our ears, we isolate ourselves from all disturbing elements and so on improve concentration.

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