Radios in a office

I have a colleague who likes the radio on but I've said I don't like it as it distracts me but that I am ok if she prefers it on so she has it on pretty quiet (because most other colleagues said they like it/ don't mind). Office room only accommodates 5 and it's all hot desks so I only have to hear it a couple of days a week. So worked out all very amicably tbh.

When the radio is on I put in ear phones and have music or a podcast on. Binaural beats really help me focus and I don't even notice them.

ETA: I guess it could be a problem if you can only work in silence. I don't mind noise that I have control over hence the earphones idea.

I miss it, when I first worked in the industry I'm still in, in one corner of the large open plan office was a radio, on quietly playing radio 2, and we would stop for a tea break for popmaster. It was hot desking and if you sat even half way across the office you couldn't hear it. We got told it had to go a couple of years after I started, because apparently we needed a broadcast licence because more than one person was listening to it (I work in the public sector). It really reminds me of the colleague whose radio it was, he died not long after and the radio still sits on the shelf but isn't used. I'm not in that office anymore but when I go back it's sad.

Noise in an office really annoys me.. especially the radio. However it’s the singing and the humming and drumming along to the radio that really gets to me.

I have my own office but the walls are paper thin and I can hear it all. Meaning my headset has to stay on all day, very annoying.

This is the bane of my working life.

I work in an office where my colleagues have the local bbc radio station on constantly. The music is stuck in an 1980s time warp, and the same tunes are on loop.

No one needs to hear The Human League several times in one day, especially in the year 2025.

The other issue is that our office has super thick walls. Mobile signal is an issue and also the same for the radio. Which means several times a day the radio turns into a hissing racquet, which then distract my colleagues as they walk round the office trying to pick up a better signal.

i do enjoy days when it’s just me in the office as I can not put the radio on and just have Spotify on my headphones for a bit of company instead.

Absolutely hate background radio in an office. Annoying and totally unprofessional if you have to speak on the phone.