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Conspiracy theories have been cooked up throughout history, but they
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Read moreCan ‘local acoustic treatment’ reduce speech distraction within open-plan offices? If you’ve ever been distracted by noisy people while attempting to concentrate on work within an open-plan office, ‘local acoustic treatment’ based on principles of listening to your own voice may be able to provide relief in the future
Overhearing conversations from nearby workstations can be one of the
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