What Your Company Hold Music Says About You
Country
You haven’t left your hometown for more than a weekend. You may be overly worried about offending someone and try to stay as uncontroversial as possible when it comes to your business. You’ve seen Keith Urban or Toby Keith in concert at least twice.
Or, perhaps none of the above is true and you’re a tractor supply company. In that case this music choice would totally make sense.
90’s Soft-Rock Hits
You were pretty popular in high school. In fact, you might be the most successful person from your graduating class. You want your customers to feel at ease and feel that reminding them of the music from the best time of their life might do that. You’re a firm yet overall pleasant boss and most of your employees don’t hate you.
You drive a mini-van.
Instrumental
You clearly don’t care. But not in the bad way. You know your customers are going to stay on hold anyways or be screwed otherwise. You focus on getting things done and don’t dwell too much on the small details.
Or, you realized you actually needed hold music and just picked this crap. You ain’t got no time to listen to lyrics, so why would your customers?
Coldplay
You’re that one person at parties who plays “Wonderwall” on guitar.
You’re secretly harbouring hope to get back together with your high school girlfriend/boyfriend.
You work for a bank or a telecommunications company.
Classic Rock
This is a pretty solid choice.
Unless you have BTO’s “Taking Care of Business” on loop because you think it’s “clever.”
In that case, you probably make a lot of dad jokes.
Alternative Folk
You’re a tech company, but not necessarily one of the cool ones. Though, you try. Your office doesn’t look anything like Google’s, but you and your team are very passionate about what you do. You don’t have treadmill desks, but your staff does get a workout in during the weekly spontaneous dodgeball tournaments that break out in the office.
It sucked when Drew got hit in the eye and filed a workplace accident claim, but he was wimp anyway…
Indie Pop
You’re the company all the millennials want to work for. Your main goal is to emulate a silicon valley tech company in every way possible. Your office is decked out to the 9’s with beanbag chairs, slides, a nap room, Macs and a fridge stocked with beer and candy. It’s safe to say you are ahead of the curve when it comes to the modern workplace, recruiting talent and employee retention. Good for you!
You have a picture Mark Zuckerberg hanging over your bed.
Indie Rock
You run a microbrewery … or a bar.
Or better yet, a microbrewery bar.
You’re cool and you know it, but you try not to make a big deal about it.
No hold music
You’re a startup.
You literally just yell at people across the office and hope to God you pressed the mute button.
But just you wait, you have yet to hit your Series-A.