Having hearing loss can put you at a disadvantage in many areas of life, including the workplace. Thankfully, treating your hearing loss with hearing aids or other assistive listening devices can help boost your career.
Hearing Aids Improve Communication in the Workplace
Communication is essential to all aspects of life, and your work life is no different. Whether you’re giving a presentation to potential clients or enjoying an afternoon coffee break with coworkers at Emily’s Donuts & Café, it’s important to have confidence in your ability to communicate effectively with others.
Hearing aids make it easier to converse in any environment, which helps improve your workplace relationships and stress less about missing important information or having a costly miscommunication.
Demonstrates Your Commitment and Motivation
Employers appreciate any steps you take to improve your workplace performance. Getting a hearing test and treating your hearing loss with hearing aids or other assistive listening devices shows that you care about doing what it takes to keep your job performance high and that you know how to be decisive when it comes to problem-solving.
Can Make It Easier to Focus on Your Job
When you have hearing loss, your brain has to work harder to process speech and other sounds. Spending all that extra mental effort throughout the day trying to understand what’s being said at work can lead you to feel exhausted and mentally fatigued quicker and more frequently. This fatigue can affect your ability to focus, which can, in turn, prevent you from doing your job to the best of your ability.
Hearing aids relieve this burden and leave you with more mental energy to spend on your work tasks, improving your work performance.
Can Lead to a Higher Income
Research has shown that hearing loss doesn’t just make your job harder; it can hurt your wallet as well. A 2015 study found that “Controlling for education, age, sex, and race, individuals with hearing loss had 1.58 times higher odds of low income and 1.98 times higher odds of being unemployed or underemployed compared to normal-hearing individuals.”
Since hearing aids or other hearing loss treatments minimize the effects of your hearing loss on your ability to perform your job, it stands to reason that it can also lead to better salary outcomes.
To learn more or to schedule an appointment for a hearing test, call Hampton Roads ENT ~ Allergy today.