Can Hearing Aids Help Me at Work?

How important is communication where you work?

Unless you are completely isolated and only communicate with your colleagues via email or messaging apps, verbal communication with others at work is critical to job performance.

A cross-sectional study conducted over a span of seventeen years by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey found that “Hearing loss is prevalent among working-age adults in the United States with an estimated 28.2 million Americans between the ages of 20 and 69 years experiencing some degree of hearing loss.”

If your job requires you to communicate verbally with your clients, better hearing is critical. In addition, being able to better understand what is going on around you can improve your job performance and can keep you safe as you commute to and from work.

If you’re reading this blog, it is possible that you are already wondering if hearing aids can improve your professional life. The short answer is, yes, they can, especially with the help of a hearing care professional like the audiologists at The Hearing Center MCC.

Destroying the Stigma of Hearing Aids

For many people, hearing aids and hearing treatment continue to come with a lot of negative stigmas. When they think of hearing aids, the bulky, awkward, and frustrating devices worn by their parents and grandparents decades ago quickly come to mind.

Who would want to be caught dead wearing those things at work, right?

I’m pleased to tell you that you don’t have to worry about those outdated stigmas. Today’s hearing aids have evolved along with micro digital technology, allowing you to wear hearing devices that are practically invisible, unless someone knows you’re wearing them.

Smaller, lighter, and far more powerful, modern hearing aids drastically improve your ability to keep up with the conversations around you by using noise dampening technology. They can be connected to your smartphone and other digital devices as well, allowing you to fine tune your hearing experience as you move from one listening environment to another.

Your first step to finding out whether hearing aids will provide the career boost you’re looking for is a comprehensive hearing assessment from a certified hearing care professional.

What Will a Hearing Assessment Do for Me?

We’ve seen plenty of people come in for their first assessment with lots of reservations about what we’re going to find and concerned about how their lives will be affected by hearing aids. However, they usually leave with a feeling of relief and a greater level of confidence about the future of their professional life and their lifestyle.

A comprehensive hearing assessment at The Hearing Center MCC is an in-depth, detailed examination of your ears, your hearing capabilities, and how your hearing challenges are affecting your day-to-day life.

Not only will a hearing assessment determine the type and severity of any hearing loss you are already experiencing, but it will also allow us to determine which hearing aids are best suited to your life and lifestyle.

With the right hearing aids and proper programming, which is accomplished by using the data collected during your hearing assessment, you will be able to better understand what is going on around you, communicate more clearly with clients, and ultimately, give your productivity a boost.

How Do Hearing Aids Make Work Better?

The obvious answer to how hearing aids can make work better relates to being able to clearly understand a task given to you by your boss or supervisor, allowing you to get it done faster and with less clarification of details.

You’ll be better able to communicate during team meetings, and social events at work will be much more pleasant when you are able to keep up with the banter from the other side of the table.

If you commute to and from work, better hearing will allow you to be more conscious of the traffic around you when sounds like blinkers clicking, horns honking, and engines humming are more prevalent.