Currently it's Mick Harvey's second album of English versions of Serge Gainsbourg songs, which seems to fit the quiet morning we're having. Having CDs going spin spin spin in the workplace seems to be a marker of the type of job you have. It's hard to imagine banks or legal firms allowing anything to break the silence, but music seems to fit the clich of open plan offices full of creative types in jeans and t-shirts.
Cube farms encourage individual listening.
My former employ saw me communing with headphones and the CD drive of my computer. We were all isolated in our own little world. But at least we were listening to what we wanted to. The big question of course, is what to play. Most of the time, words don't work, perhaps because you have to listen to them too closely.