beats are a joke. For the same price, you can get headphones that actually sound good. But I guess for some people it's more about the appearance. They're probably also the same folks that use the term 'swag' in normal conversation like that somehow gives you status.
At work, I use these to listen to music and also hear when someone walks up behind me:
Aftershokz Sportz (I actually have the first generation...)
For what they are, the audio quality is really quite good. The only downside that I see is that I have to charge them once every other day for a couple hours...