WORKING TO MUSIC

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 9

WORKING TO MUSIC

OUTPUT INCREASES.

RESPONSE OF FACTORY GIRLS

MEN WORKERS INDIFFERENT. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, May 11. Music is helping factory employees to get through their work, and employer* find it is profitable to provide the music, I as output is increased. These are the conclusions of the Industrial Health Research Board who report of one industry: "When music was played the

increase of output varied from C.2 per cent to 11.3 per cent." At Coventry women in the bodytriinming department of a motor car factory have had two concerts a day for three years. The music, broadcast by eight loud-speakers, lasts for aliont an hour in the late morning and another hour in the afternoon.

While the women are happier and look less fatigued after working to jazz rhythms, the few men in the department show little interest in the music.

The chairman of a Wembley lampi manufacturers said this week: "My gills —25 of them —keep their radiogram running most of the time! They are delighted with it." The shop forewoman is in charge of changing and selecting the record* and the radiogram plays about five hours a ■day. The chairman estimates that it has increased output by more than 10 per cent.