Headphones for calls in a noisy office

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I’m attending the office more and more. I regularly have to join online calls in a busy office on my laptop and often be asked to mute myself due to background office noise picked up by my headphone.

Can someone recommend some new headphones for my needs?
 
We recently moved to Microsoft Teams for our Telephony at work and for Sales we bought them all Jabra Evolve 2 75.

They are not the cheapest but the noise cancellation does from experience work as advertised, and feedback has been positive from the end users who all sit in close proximity. That aside, I don't really have anything to compare them to.

I guess they are quite bulky too, and with the LED they do look like they are all sat there gaming.

What is your budget?
 
We use gsuite and I’m currently using Sony mx2. Didn’t really have a budget in mind but just looked at the cost for that Jabra :eek:. You not used any other headphone for comparison?
 
We're given the jabra evolves at work as well, work perfectly. You'd never known the person on the other end had the busy help desk 5ft away.
 
I used to use Jabra headsets on a service desk, but yeah they are quite expensive. If plugged into windows does lowering the Recording\Microphone in the sound control panel reduce the sensitivity. Also are you sure it's using the headset, I had a similar issue with my Dell work laptop, well two of them, using different 3.5mm headsets it would never detect my mic and would use the laptop microphones and cause a lot of background pick and noise on calls. It seems to be a big issue with them I could never resolve
 
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tom_e said:
We're given the jabra evolves at work as well, work perfectly. You'd never known the person on the other end had the busy help desk 5ft away.
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Do you know which Jabra model you were given? Been reading up and 65 vs 75 doesnt look like a lot of difference in mic quality
 
I have a Sennheiser SC165 headset and the noise cancellation is excellent. Been going strong now since 2020 and haven’t missed a beat. Might be worth a look?
 
We did actually buy 1 of each of the 65 and 75 model before opting to go for 5 pairs of the 75.

I personally didn't really test and compare the quality difference so I can't really advise but I still think the 65 model should be adequate (don't quote me on that though as I think the premium between them both is related to the quality of the noise cancellation and I guess it may also depend on how noisy are the surroundings).
 
The jabra wired headsets are comparable in capability to the wireless at about a quarter of the price. I'd usually recommend those, Logitech h390 or Microsoft lifechat 3000, for reasonably good headsets with passive nc
 
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