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title: 5 Tips for Reducing Distractions Around Your Office
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# 5 Tips for Reducing Distractions Around Your Office

[Team Synerion](https://blog.synerion.com/author/team-synerion)

 Aug 22, 2016 2:49:03 PM

![desk-office-workspace-coworking-1.jpg](https://blog.synerion.com/hs-fs/hubfs/desk-office-workspace-coworking-1.jpg?width=294&name=desk-office-workspace-coworking-1.jpg)Despite their stated goal of worker productivity, offices can be a distracting place. Between all of the noise, people walking by and interruptions by coworkers, many workers struggle to focus on the task at hand. This can have a serious impact on productivity and also result lead to worker stress and reduced morale. That’s why dealing with this issue properly is so important.

Although workplace noise and distraction are a normal part of any workplace, there are things you can do to reduce its impact. Read our 5 strategies below.

**Survey staff**

The first thing you should do is survey staff, whether formally or informally, for how they feel about distractions in their office. Some people don’t mind being in a hectic part of the office or, because they work in sales and are on the phone so much for example, some are contributors to a noisy and distraction filled office environment. The key to an effective surveying of staff is to find the employees negatively affected by an office environment and create a plan to reduce its impact on. 

**Re-arrange Your Seating Plan**

One of the best ways to make your office environment less distracting is through re-arranging your seating plan. There are so many ways this can help. For example, you can move staff who are on the phone a lot to a more secluded part of the office. Or, you can put two departments who regularly interact closer together to reduce foot traffic.

**Create an Email Policy**

Email is a major cause of distraction for many workers. It interrupts trains of thought for issues that often can be resolved at a later time. So to help counter this affect, consider creating some guidelines for use of email. It can involve having a few designated times per day to help reduce its impact, especially if staff don’t need to check their email right away for their role.

**Promote Use of Noise Cancelling Headphones**

To help workers reduce the impact of so many office distractions, you can offer up a pair of noise cancelling headphones or allow them to expense a pair they have purchased themselves. If office noise is an inevitable part of your business, this is likely your best option.

**Create an Office Hours Policy**

If you find your staff are constantly interrupted by constant communication with other employees, create an office hours’ policy. For example, designate a half in the morning and a half hour in the afternoon for employees to chat, share ideas and answer questions.

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