It’s more important than ever to create a positive working environment. Once the holiday season is over, spirits can be a little low and with Seasonal Affective Disorder affecting 2 million people in the UK, it’s time to change your tune!
Playing music can be an important part in helping to create an environment that both your customers and staff enjoy.
It could help to reinvigorate the atmosphere, improve the health & wellbeing of employees and aid in collaboration & morale.
Helping you to stay in tune with the well-being & engagement benefits of playing music in your business.
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Our music choices can affect our mood.
Happy, upbeat music causes our brains to produce chemicals like dopamine and serotonin, which evokes feelings of joy, whereas calming music relaxes the mind and body.
Music affects both our autonomic nervous system which manages our heartbeat, and our limbic system which regulates our emotions.
Listening to music before a source of stress accelerates recovering time compared to when music hasn’t been listened to.
Music can affect our brains in a number of ways but classes like music therapy have become a popular form of treating anxiety & depression.
Get in the zone with specific genres!
Listening to genres like classical music whilst you’re carrying out immersive work can get your creative juices flowing, with no lyrics to tear you away from the depths of concentration.
Those shivers down our spine that we feel when listening to music, well, that’s a result of a dopamine hit, both from when we hear the music we like and at the point we anticipate it coming.
*94% of people struggling with anxiety said music helped lift their mood.
*62% said music made them feel better about themselves/more confident this rose, to 72% with 16-24 & 25-34 year olds.
*78% said they felt more motivated after listening to music this rose to 81% among women.
*https://www.bpi.co.uk/news-analysis/music-helped-the-uk-get-through-lockdown-new-insights-show/
Listening to music has the potential to relax our minds as well as our bodies.
Did you know?
Research has shown that even heavy metal music can help lower your blood pressure.
Music could benefit both the health and well-being of your workforce. By creating a more upbeat environment, it could also make your employees feel valued and improve their overall attitude and performance.
32% of office-based Brits surveyed feel that music is an important aspect in creating a positive work environment.
Music genres with a slightly higher BPM (beats per minute) than your heart rate will encourage your heart to keep pace, pumping more oxygen around your body and have you firing on all cylinders.
We all know exercise can improve your wellbeing but can you imagine working out without music?
According to the BPI, 75% of those undertaking gym/fitness activities did so with music as an accompaniment.*
*https://www.bpi.co.uk/news-analysis/music-helped-the-uk-get-through-lockdown-new-insights-show/
According to the British Association for Music Therapy, music can really help those with psychological, cognitive or communicative needs.
Music therapy relies on a sensory stimulation to provoke a positive response to certain situations.
No matter what your business you want it to run smoothly, be this assigning workloads, managing partnerships or setting out your budget.
But running a successful business is about more than just your day to day operations. It’s about providing an excellent service for your customers or clients. It’s also about encouraging teamwork and supporting collaboration; but most of all, it’s about keeping your workforce focused whilst safeguarding their well-being.
Many of us choose to listen to music in our day to day lives as it has the potential to make us feel more positive and upbeat. Listening to music at work could have a similar effect.
Playing music in the workplace could help to create a more upbeat and energetic environment and could help to keep staff positive, engaged and support with mental health and well-being.
Music is a fantastic accompaniment to summer activities. Whether you’re basking in the sunshine on holiday, enjoying a staycation, or simply making the most of longer, brighter days, summer offers a wonderful opportunity to be more intentional about the music you listen to.
From colleagues’ annual leave to childcare issues and unpredictable office temperatures, the month of August is heralded as one of the peak times of the year for resignations where stress levels can be running high as summer comes to a close.
In today’s always-on world, many people arrive at work already carrying a sense of noise, competing priorities, personal pressures and constant digital demand.
Brits have given up on their New Year’s resolutions and are already looking to cancel their gym memberships less than a quarter into the year – according to our recent survey.
Hospitality businesses may seem like a fun and sociable place to work, however, according to our survey people who work within the sector are experiencing poor health due to the stress of their job role.
Work-related burnout among workers is at ‘crisis point’ as over half of employees have experienced it in the last year, according to our new survey.
**An office with 4 or fewer workers could play music for £104.82 providing the music is not audible to customers or other visitors to the premises.
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