The Effect of Using Folk Music Genres on Fatigue Levels and Work Concentration of PT. XYZ

The main purpose of this article is to determine whether there is influence from music on the performance of someone when carrying out work. the type of music used in this study is music with the genre of Folk. The same work without music is also carried out as a control. Each subject is given the same amount of work, namely entering data numbers and letters in a report manually, which is handwritten. Each subject is given enough rest every time he finishes carrying out an experiment. All employees with a total of 100 men and women participated in this study. The statistical program is used to analyze the results of the study. From the calculation results, it appears that music with folk genre types significantly affects their performance. Heart rate per minute is lower when subjects listen to folk music while carrying out their work than without listening to music. On the other hand, oxygen consumption does not decrease significantly without music compared to listening to music. Because of this, it would be more beneficial if when doing a job, workers listen to folk music or their favorite songs