First of all, to evaluate whether music can improve work efficiency, you need to consider one characteristic: whether your current job will make you feel dazed. What does it mean? It’s about whether this job is highly repetitive and monotonous. This has to do with the diversity and creativity that work requires. Writing an essay from scratch requires the ability to create and integrate, but writing a letter in reply does not. Therefore, if you think that the job in front of you does not require much inspiration or creative stimulation, then listening to music will definitely help. Another example is that you work in an open plan office. Many people believe that working in an open space increases communication, but how can you avoid small talk and gossip? If the working environment is too noisy, the efficiency will be low. Without headphones, you can’t do anything at all.

Recently, many research units have conducted relevant experiments in an attempt to find out the relationship between background music and work efficiency. Many results show that background music does have a positive impact and can even be used in industry to increase profits. However, other research units believe that it is not the background music that helps. We naturally feel good when we hear the music we like. Appropriate background music when we are in good condition will increase the joy of the atmosphere and indeed show higher work efficiency and happiness.

But according to a recent study, music can also be considered a type of external interference. In the study, subjects who completed tasks while listening to music took more time to fully recall what they had done than subjects who did not listen to music. In other words, listening to music while working actually Can affect a person's short-term memory.

For work that does not require high concentration, lyrics will not have an impact. Listening to music with lyrics while exercising can greatly improve your endurance; conversely, if the work at hand is like the above and requires a lot of mental use, the lyrics will only completely destroy your concentration.

Listening to lyrics causes the language center of our brain to activate. If you happen to be writing, you are using the same part of your brain at the same time, and your concentration will be divided, just like you are talking to two people at the same time and playing the guitar at the same time. On the other hand, if you want to do work that does not require the use of the language center of the brain, whether there are lyrics is not so important, such as design work. A recent study also showed that if a software engineer listens to music while working, his work performance will be better; but if you are a word worker, don't play music with lyrics.