Discuss this statement, illustrating your points with specific examples: Music has been shown in the past to help maintain a high level of worker productivity, which is what every employer and employee, endeavours to uphold. However, as past studies have generalized the findings regarding music in the workplace (a necessary procedure for scientific research), a clear understanding has not been realised as to whether music helps ALL employees to concentrate. A piece of music may be helping nine out of ten employees work, but that is to say that the other one employee is being distracted by the same music. According to a study published in 1994 in Communication Monographs, Employees have a wide range of musical tastes – one form of music that motivates and helps one worker to concentrate may have another worker tearing out clumps of hair by day’s end. Research has shown that music can reduce stress but only when the listener perceives it as relaxing. People make active choices regarding their music preferences and the music to which they listen. When these choices are taken away some become agitated