As the countdown to the holidays begins, Google searches for “Christmas playlist 2025” have spiked this past week. But could ...

Although many people may think background noise in the office environment can be distracting, studies show that employees actually like to hear music while they are at work. Recruiting company ...

Jamming out at a concert puts music front and center in a person’s life, but only for a moment. Most of the time, music serves more as sonic wallpaper, spicing up the background while we go about the ...

Sometimes music at work can be a welcome diversion. But not all songs favored by employees come from “The Sound of Music.” An employer’s obligation to keep its workplace free from harassment includes ...

Do you listen to music at work? Is that music on headphones or shared for the office to hear? I left my previous job last November, where I was a DBA for a large corporate insurance company and went ...

Music won’t make you smarter, but it can help you to be more productive. Your taste in music matters, but your personality traits matter, too. Which playlist to pick depends on the task you need to ...

He began his career during the 1950s folk revival and continued to record — and helped orchestrate “We Are the World” — while pursing his many other artistic and political interests. By Jon Pareles ...

Loud music in public settings can spark social disputes. But blasting tunes that are "sexually explicit" or "aggressive" in the workplace can also be grounds for claiming sexual harassment, according ...

Many researchers agree that music improves productivity at work (Stanford, Sheffield, Sachs, Samson, Bigand, 2013). According to Dr. Amit (Padnani, 2012), music would have a favorable impact in an ...