The COVID-19 pandemic prompted intense review of workplace design considerations and solutions. In the A&D community, there is growing conviction that occupant well-being and engagement must be supported through concern with equity and applied to real-world needs such as acoustical privacy. This webinar will discuss how to reliably design buildings to function acoustically for their users (i.e., provide adequate speech privacy, allow freedom from distraction, reduce sound annoyance, provide a good night’s sleep, and so on) through the establishment of a known and consistent level of spectrally neutral background sound.