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Company has given out headsets to everyone, but people are impossible to please so most people (myself included) aren't using the official ones for variety of reasons. Plus a lot of it is about the MS Teams which has no software support for noise isolation or cancelling. I can see it clearly when I'm using Discord; if I don't talk, I don't broadcast. In Teams if I am quiet Teams will keep cranking up the volume until some sound AC hum, typing, whatever gets picked up and I am constantly broadcasting.


> Plus a lot of it is about the MS Teams which has no software support for noise isolation or cancelling

My company uses WebEx, which in 2020 had no background noise elimination, but now days it does it quite well.

I can be in a room with another person talking, loudly, and it won't come through on my mic. But I also have a nice Bose headset.

My wife's headset with a dedicated boom mic also works really well in this regard.

Airpods, eh, not sure how much I trust people using airpods. :)

FWIW unless I am talking, I mute myself, and all of my colleagues do the same.




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