How Do My Hearing Aids Help Me at Work?

Is communication important where you work? How about when your business is serving your clients? 

Unless you only use email or messaging apps to communicate with your co-workers or clients, verbal communication is a critical part of your productivity at work. 

A study spanning seventeen years conducted by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey demonstrates that “an estimated 28.2 million working-age Americans between the ages of 20 and 69 years are experiencing some degree of hearing loss.” 

Here’s the bottom line. Better hearing is critical if your job requires you to communicate verbally with your clients, and being able to better understand what is going on around you can improve your job performance, not to mention keep you safe as you commute to and from work.  

If you are already wondering if hearing aids can improve your professional life, the short answer is yes, they can, especially when you get help from a hearing care professional like our audiologists at ENT Consultants of East Tennessee.

The Hearing Aids Stigma 

When people think of hearing aids, most remember the bulky, awkward, and frustrating devices worn by their parents and grandparents decades ago. Consequently, hearing aids and hearing treatment come with a lot of negative stigmas.  

Nobody wants to be caught dead wearing those things at work, right? 

Fortunately, you don’t have to worry about the outdated stigmas associated with hearing aids, because today’s hearing aids have evolved along with other micro digital technology. 

Because they’re smaller, they are practically invisible, unless someone knows you’re wearing them. In addition, they are less bulky and lighter weight for improved wearing comfort, but their performance is far more powerful than ever before. 

Modern hearing aids drastically improve your ability to keep up with the conversations around you by using noise dampening technology, and you can connect them to your smartphone and other digital devices to fine-tune your hearing experience as you move from one listening environment to another. 

If you’re wondering whether hearing aids will provide the career boost you’re looking for, your first step is to schedule a comprehensive hearing assessment from a certified hearing care professional. 

How Will a Hearing Assessment Help Me? 

Many people come in for their first assessment concerned about what we’re going to find and wondering how their lives will be affected by hearing aids. Most of them leave with a sense of relief and a greater level of confidence about their future personal and professional life. 

A comprehensive hearing assessment by a member of our team at the ENT Consultants of East Tennessee is an in-depth, detailed examination of your ears and your hearing capacity as well as an evaluation of how your hearing challenges are affecting your life on a day-to-day basis. 

A hearing assessment determines the type and severity of any hearing loss you are experiencing and will help us determine which hearing aids are best suited to your life and lifestyle. 

The right hearing aids with proper programming and ongoing care by one of our hearing care professionals will help you better understand what is going on around you, communicate more clearly with your clients, and ultimately boost your productivity. 

What Benefits Do Hearing Aids Provide at Work? 

Being able to clearly understand a task given to you by your boss or supervisor is the first and most obvious benefit. Improved clarity allows you to get your work done faster without having to ask for the clarification of details. 

Better communication with your team during team meetings and social events at work makes your job much more pleasant, especially when you’re able to keep up with the banter from the other side of the table. 

If you commute to and from work, hearing aids will make you more conscious of the traffic around you, making you more aware of sounds like blinkers clicking, horns honking, engines humming, and more.