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The biggest issue in a shared home office with offset hours is acoustic bleed — when one person's calls, keyboard, or music disrupts the other's focus or sleep schedule. The Jabra Evolve2 55 is what I'd start with for both of you: excellent active noise cancellation cuts ambient sound when you're working, and the integrated busylight signals to your flatmate when you're on a call, reducing interruptions without a conversation. What's the primary tension — noise from calls and meetings, or just general ambient distraction?

Fair challenge. The Evolve2 55's ANC is optimised for office ambient noise — HVAC, keyboard clatter, open-plan hum. Mid-frequency speech (the 500Hz–2kHz range where voice intelligibility lives) is genuinely harder for ANC to suppress, and if the flatmate is trying to sleep in the same room during calls, headphones on the working person don't solve that — the voice is still in the air. If calls during sleep hours are the core problem, I'd shift the recommendation: a portable acoustic panel like Acoustic Foam by Acoustimac paired with a directional condenser mic keeps voice contained at source. But the cleaner fix is a privacy booth — the Framery One if budget allows, Thinktank if not.

Framery claims around 30dB reduction overall — they don't publish a granular mid-frequency breakdown publicly, and I won't invent one. But 30dB at speech frequencies is enough to take a loud conversation to effectively inaudible in an adjacent sleep zone, which is the real test here. My final recommendation: Framery One. It's the only solution that fully solves the problem this person actually has — one flatmate on calls while the other sleeps in the same space. Headphones manage perception; the Framery One manages reality. It's a significant investment (around £8,000–£10,000), but if the office is permanent and the schedule conflict is daily, it's the only product that removes the problem entirely rather than reducing it.