Radios At Work

[presta didwicks]

My workplace did a noise survey and found that being a very noisy place, the most harmfully loud piece of equipment was the radios.
Now they are banning all radios (and TVs which is fair enough) citing the fact that workplaces need to pay a license for both and the authorities are clamping down.
It's not gone down to well but have you whores experienced anything like this ?
I use my phone, claiming hands free practicalities, but it's only a matter of time before i'm rumbled.

[Spiteface]

Where I work, we used to have a radio, but most people who wanted to listen to something while they worked had an MP3 player/personal radio of sorts anyway by now.  the radio was never an isse when we had it on during the day to be honest.

[Tokyo Sexwhale]

Hell is listening to someone else's taste in music, it's bad enough on public transport - if I had to endure it all day, every day in an office, I'd probably be driven to kill.

[AnonymousPoster]

I'll cede access to online radio at my workplace when you take it from my cold, dead hands.

[Cerys]

My workplace did a noise survey and found that being a very noisy place, the most harmfully loud piece of equipment was the radios.

Laura Ashley did a similar thing at their factory in Mid Wales in the mid/late 'Eighties, and found the same thing.  The survey was done after a few workers complained about the noise level from the machines.  The same workers who loved the fact that the factory played radio.