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The use of music enhances the working environment of the IT professional. Discuss this statement, illustrating your points with specific examples. The intention of this essay is to prove or refute the statement that “The use of music enhances the working environment of the IT professional”. There are two main questions that will need to be addressed in order to determine the validity of this statement. § Can the effectual use of music in the workplace be described as a positive enforcement of a relaxing, productive and harmonious working environment, or rather, in contrast, does it produce negative effects, for example, to aggravate, annoy and distract? § What are the advantages and disadvantages of introducing music into the workplace? Music has been shown in the past to help maintain a high productive workforce 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 e