Is there a way to make bash job control quiet?

Question

Bash is quite verbose when running jobs in the background:

$ echo toto&
toto
[1] 15922
[1]+  Done                    echo toto

Since I\

Answer 1

One solution (in bash anyway) is to route all the output to /dev/null

    echo 'hello world' > /dev/null &

The above will not give you any output other than the id for the bg process.