Pain point
Focus space that shuts out the floor
Open floors were designed to put people together, and they carry sound in every direction. Headphones mask the noise but they do not stop a colleague walking over, and the cost of each interruption is paid in the time it takes to get back to the work.
How common it is
is the average time it takes to return to a task after an interruption.
of employees say the noise levels around them support the work they do.
reported by employees in open offices is ambient noise, ahead of every other interruption.
What renting changes
The fix.
A rented pod puts a closed, acoustically treated room on the floor you already have. It reduces what reaches the person inside by up to 43 dB, which turns a 75 dB open plan into something closer to a library.
Recommended for this problem
The pods that solve it.
Work Pod
One person doing deep work. Room for a laptop session of an hour or an afternoon.
Call Pod
One person on calls. It fits where a desk fits and keeps the conversation off the floor.
By industry and metro
How this looks in your world.
Each page below covers this same problem for one industry in one metro, with the local specifics.
Healthcare
Clinical staff chart between patients, and the floor they chart on is the same floor that runs alarms, intercom pages, and family conversations.
Software
Engineering work is the kind that suffers most from a short interruption, because the context takes longer to rebuild than the interruption took.
Legal
Drafting and document review need sustained attention, and a partner reading a contract on an open floor is interrupted by conversations that have nothing to do with the matter.
Media
Editors and producers work to a cut deadline, and the same room that makes a newsroom fast makes a fine edit almost impossible.
Solve it this quarter.
A pod is delivered and installed in a single visit, with no permit and no build-out. Tell us the floor and we will price it.