New research draws attention to the role music plays in workplace productivity.
New research draws attention to the role music plays in workplace productivity.
If you want your employees to work well together and get more done as a team, it might help to pipe in some upbeat tunes. Research from Cornell University has found that employees who listen to happy music—like the Beatles’s “Yellow Submarine”—are able to cooperate and make group decisions better than employees who work without a background soundtrack.