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"We've had talk of grey-noise trials in our office -"

This is actually a well known Contact Centre technique.

Noise volumes in a "quiet" office soon escalate, as people get distracted by the people talking next to them, so raise their voice a little more in order to zone in on their conversation...then the people around them raise theirs. Rinse and repeat.

By introducing a base level sound, you are less distracted by other peoples conversations, and so so you tend not to raise your own voice.

So ironically, having noise introduced at a set level actually reduces overall noise in the environment.

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