Oh, in quite setting I can hear just fine without looking or at least as well as most people. Depending on the acoustics I can even understand people in another room.
The biggest problem I had at work was during the 4 weeks between implantation and activation of the first implant. I had to get by with just the one hearing aid when I hadn’t been hearing very well with two. Fortunately I work with a good group and we got through that. Once I was activated, well I had excellent results and understood speech quickly so things improved rapidly from my per-implantation days.
And then COVID came and everything went remote and I was very glad that I had the implant because I never would have been able to operate in a phone and WebEx world without it.