Whether you're working the floor at a retail store or sifting through papers at a desk, a new study suggests you may want to start paying more attention to the music that's playing in the background — ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. In a previous column about the stress of working in an “open” office, I suggested that the popular practice ...

Another study found that students with musical training could write longer, better-structured sentences when working with ...

If you habitually pop in AirPods when you really, really need to get some work done in your open-concept office, you're far from alone. Nearly 80% of adults listen to music while they work, and ...