This new study is claiming that listening to music boosts your productivity!
Mindlab International just completed a brand new study on music and it’s benefits in the work place! According to their study, they claim 9 out of 10 people will perform better when listening to music while working. In simple terms, listening to music boosts your productivity in the work office!
For their experiment, MindLab gave 26 participants a to do list that they had to complete every day for a total of five days. During those five days the participants listened to different genres of music while they worked to complete their tasks. They played the four different genres of music on different days, and played no music at all on the fifth day.
The results found that over 80% of participants produced their fastest and most accurate work when listening to music as opposed to nothing at all. Mindlab’s Dr. David Lewis summed up the role of music in the workplace.
“The take-home message is that music is a very powerful management tool if you want to increase not only the efficiency of your workforce but also their mental state, their emotional state – they’re going to become more positive about the work.”
Now, that doesn’t mean that the elevator music or awful playlists from Target and Walmart are going to increase your productivity. While running their tests, Mindlab put some thought into what genres work best. It turns out that for most of the participants dance music was one of the best genres of music to listen to in the work space.
Electronic dance music resulted in the highest overall accuracy and fastest performance across a range of tasks. Spell-checking, solving equations, mathematical word problems, and abstract reasoning tasks were all accomplished quickly and more effectively with a driving rhythm of dance music.
Similarly, pop music proved well for data entry and deadlines, ambient music was perfect for solving intricate equations, and classical music boosts attention to detail. Watch the video down below to find out more of the interesting results they found while running their tests.
