Everywhere you go, people are listening to music, whether it is on their smartphone or being played overhead in a department store. People cleaning dishes at home, typing an email at work, or even reading a magazine on the subway listen to music. An abundance of studies show how music positively affects the work efficiency of people completing tasks or jobs, especially those that are repetitive. Music causes people to work faster, be more focused, improve their mood, and spark the creation of new ideas.
When people listen to music that they enjoy, it motivates them to work at a faster pace. From a study published in the journal of Neuroscience of Behavior and Physiology, it was found that a person’s ability to recognize images, letters, and numbers was faster when rock or classical music was playing in the background
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And it's not just that music is a diversion or an extracurricular, but it's actually something that's fundamental to life and mind," said Parag Chordia, director of the Music Intelligence Lab at Georgia Tech (Chordia). He also states, "We've never found a culture that has no language--we've never found a culture that has no music. So, music seems to be universal."(Chordia). Moderate background noise (about the volume of a vacuum cleaner) can create enough distraction to allow you to think more imaginatively (Mikael Cho). Teresa Lusiak wrote an in depth article that analyzed the performance and creativity of software developers when listening to music. She found a correlation between the music and the developers curiosity after several weeks of listening. This is important as curiosity is essential for developers who are regularly required to be creative in designing computer software systems. Music listening may provide an opportunity for developers to align themselves with their optimum creativity (Teresa