Although sound has become an important theme that emerges in studies of collective and hybrid workspaces, the everyday sound in organizations is still inadequately understood. This study offers a rhythmanalysis of sound in the context of flexible offices, as organizations attempt to manage noise within collaborative spaces. Drawing on an ethnographic field study of a major bank in Paris, multiple sonic rhythms were found that coalesce and are sutured into: isorhythmia rhythmically ordering sound and disciplining bodies, eurhythmia in harmony with the rhythmic order, and arrhythmia disturbing the rhythmic order. The findings foreground sound as an open-ended relational movement and allow the unravelling of some ambiguities and details of everyday life in organizations.
