Sound insulation in different kinds of offices - what is needed for different situations

Some kind of working groups like doctors, priesthood and lawyers are dealing with confidential and personal information in their daily life. In general there is a need to hinder personal information to be spread more than necessary. With loud level of conversation in pressed situations, R'w of minimum 48 dB is needed to hinder spreading of sensitive information to neighbor room. The paper will discuss different concepts for offices like office landscape, client-zone, and when and why proper sound insulation is necessary. There are also other buildings where proper sound insulation is needed between offices, like offices and meeting rooms in schools, kindergarten, social welfare services, banking services, insurance companies and house for family counseling or health care. It is a big need to clarify sound insulation in office buildings or administration rooms based on what kind of conversations are going on or what kind of information are being dealt with. The boundary between necessary sharing of information for proper internal discussion and unnecessary spreading is important issue to consider. Experience shows that duty of confidentiality for employees is not sufficient to hinder spreading of sensitive information.