Working in a louder environment than your hush-hush office will get you more interesting ideas. But if you’re tied to your desk, maybe you can bring the creative environment to your headphones.

When stay-at-home orders went into place, I was very fortunate that working from home (or remotely) was a situation I was already accustomed to. I had perfected my WFH routine, but not being able to ...

Do you feel you're better focused on the job with a little light background jazz or coffee shop chatter compared to pin-drop silence? Scientists might know why. According to Onno van der Groen, a ...

Working from home was a dream life for a lot of people who wanted to wake up, grab their morning coffee or tea, and tap away at their computer without distractions to throw them off track. Now, some ...

Erin Perkins is an editor of Eater’s South region, covering Atlanta, Nashville, Miami, New Orleans, and the Carolinas. She has been writing about the food scene in the Carolinas and Savannah for 12 ...

Tiny popping sounds are a roaster’s secret road map. Do you have a Pavlovian response to the sound of coffee beans being ground? If you answered “yes,” you aren’t alone. According to an online survey ...

When you walk into a coffee shop, you’re greeted with an assemblage of different sounds. Most of the time, it’s the calm bustle of a dozen different conversations happening in close proximity to each ...

I was halfway through my beer, and I couldn't believe my ears. Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó's jazzy cover of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" was on the stereo at Upright Brewing, and somehow the ...

Do you feel you're better focused on the job with a little light background jazz or coffee shop chatter compared to pin-drop silence? Scientists might know why. According to Onno van der Groen, a ...