Phone booths and quiet spaces: acoustic solutions for privacy, concentration and individual work
Phone booths are compact solutions that help introduce private, quiet and immediately usable spaces into the office, without resorting to masonry work or traditional enclosed rooms. Today they do not only respond to the need to make phone calls in privacy: they support video calls, individual concentration, quick discussions and small meetings, improving the usability of open spaces, professional studios and hybrid work environments. When well designed, they make the workplace more flexible, more orderly and easier to use throughout the day.Office phone booths are acoustic booths or multifunction pods designed to create visual privacy and acoustic comfort within shared environments. They can integrate ventilation, LED lighting, power sockets, support surfaces and different configurations for single-person use or small groups. They are used for calls, video calls, focus work, brainstorming and quick meetings, with the aim of increasing the availability of private spaces without making the office layout rigid.
Single booth for calls and concentration
A contained space immediately improves privacy and the quality of everyday work.
The single booth is the most immediate configuration for companies and private offices that want to manage phone calls, video calls and focus moments without moving every activity into a meeting room. Placed in open spaces, shared studios or high-intensity operational areas, it helps remove the most disturbing conversations from the shared space and gives users a clear, quiet micro-workstation that is always available. Its value is not only acoustic: it improves workplace order, makes the call experience more professional and reduces the sense of dispersion typical of overly open environments.
Standing booth for quick use
When time is short, having a space immediately ready matters.
The standing booth is ideal for short calls, operational check-ins, quick alignments and concentration moments that do not require long stays. Its main strength is its compact footprint, which allows it to fit well even in environments with limited space or near shared areas and equipped circulation routes. In a contemporary office, this solution works very well because it avoids occupying meeting rooms for quick activities and gives the team an immediate, intuitive and easy-to-use resource. It is the right choice when more privacy is needed, but with an agile and non-invasive logic.
Booth with integrated worktop
The booth becomes a true temporary micro-workstation.
When the phone booth has to support not only a call but also individual tasks, notes, laptops and longer video calls, the configuration with integrated worktop is the most effective. In this case, support surfaces, power sockets, lighting and ventilation become important because they transform the booth into a truly usable space, not just an acoustic refuge. For companies and private offices, this type is very interesting in hybrid contexts, where people alternate between their main workstation, calls, focus moments and internal mobility. The result is a compact but complete solution, capable of significantly increasing workplace flexibility.
Meeting pod for small groups
More private discussion, without occupying a large room.
When the need involves two, three or four people, the meeting pod is a highly convincing solution because it offers a more contained environment that is quicker to use than a traditional meeting room. It is perfect for brainstorming, operational discussions, internal interviews, short meetings and alignments that require privacy but not a boardroom. In terms of user experience, it greatly improves the office: it increases the number of spaces actually available for discussion, reduces pressure on the main meeting rooms and makes the workplace more consistent with contemporary work rhythms. It is a strong response especially in evolved open spaces and environments where collaboration and concentration must coexist.
Modular and customisable acoustic pod
The right solution when the project requires greater configuration freedom.
Not every company needs the same booth. In many cases, the most appropriate choice is a modular solution, capable of adapting to different layouts, visual identities and usage patterns. Dimensions, materials, transparency, internal equipment and degree of enclosure can greatly change how the booth behaves in the space and how users perceive it. For this reason, a customisable booth is particularly suitable for professional studios, management offices, contract environments and workplaces that want to integrate the pod as a coherent part of the project, not as an element added later. When the configuration is well calibrated, the booth fits better and works as a true architectural component of the workplace.
Acoustic pod for evolved open spaces
An element that rebalances open collaboration and necessary privacy.
In the most contemporary open spaces, the acoustic pod is not only used to isolate, but to better distribute work functions throughout the day. It offers a place for calls, focus work and quick meetings without interrupting the continuity of the environment and without fragmenting it into closed rooms. This makes it particularly useful when the workplace needs to remain open, collaborative and visually readable, but also needs to introduce islands of concentration and confidentiality. The benefit is twofold: those using the pod find a more contained and comfortable micro-space, while the rest of the office remains quieter, more orderly and less exposed to interference.
FAQ
Phone booths are compact acoustic booths designed to create private spaces within shared offices. Today they are used not only for phone calls, but also for video calls, individual focus, temporary work and small meetings, with the aim of improving privacy and flexibility without masonry work.
It is worth doing when open spaces, shared studios or hybrid environments struggle to provide sufficiently private spaces for calls, concentration or quick discussions. A booth becomes particularly useful when meeting rooms are occupied by activities too small to justify their use, or when background noise compromises the quality of everyday work.
It depends on the main type of use. The single booth is ideal for calls, video calls and individual focus; the meeting pod is more suitable for small groups that need a private space for quick discussions, brainstorming or short meetings. In many offices, the two solutions coexist well because they respond to different but complementary needs.
The most useful features are those that make the booth truly usable: ventilation, LED lighting, power sockets, worktop and support surfaces. When these elements are well integrated, the booth stops being a simple enclosed cabin and becomes a more complete, comfortable and credible micro-workspace for everyday use.
No. They work very well also in professional studios, private offices, hybrid environments, common areas and contract spaces, because they introduce privacy and acoustic comfort even where dedicated rooms are missing. They are particularly effective whenever a compact, integrable and ready-to-use solution is needed.