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Earplug recommendations

TheatreW1

I work in an open plan office and I appear to have a noise sensitivity issue when I'm there. I have a pair of Loop Quiet earplugs but I don't think they're working despite playing around with the sizes.                                                                                  Does anyone have any recommendations? 

  • Some alternatives are noise cancelling headphones (some have a button that turns on a microphone I think, which enables normal hearing, called transparency). Also standard headphones and play white noise.

    (Though large headphones can be a bit intimidating for others.)

  • I've been using loop switch 2 for a few years atp and really like them. You can siwtch between 3 diff modes, the first level is made more for socialisation and muting background noise, the second level is for like live events/music, and the third levell is for focus. As a student and concert lover these work great for me on the daily !

  • I worked in an open-plan office and hated the noise from that too. :( Are you comfortable with wearing full earphones in front of people? If so, there are some decent noise-cancelling headphones out there. They're on the expensive side, though. I bought some Sony ones for about £300 (this was a vastly discounted sale price!) before I had even heard about Loops. These headphones use a technology that creates a vacuum where it blocks out a lot of sound (you can hear/feel it when it kicks in on that mode). I sadly ended up being too anxious about wearing them in the office as I felt like I was visibly shutting myself off from people and being rude and not a "team player", even though it was my colleagues who were being inconsiderate with their level and frequency of noise on my shared desk. Maybe you're not as worried as I am about what others think, though? When I was forced to work from home during Covid, they really helped to shut out DIY noise from neighbours and any construction work going on outside.