Multiple Person Small Meeting Room Office Pods

The word “noise” is often associated with the audible aspects of an environment: people talking, coffee machines running, keyboards clacking, and another office buzz. What’s less considered is visual noise: motions in your peripherals, lights accosting your senses, what's happening on your neighbor’s computer screen, etc. Office noise of any kind can cause sensory fatigue, especially when employees experience it for eight to nine hours per day. Fatigue leads to underperformance, which leads to stress and poor productivity. The office simply can't run effectively without a solution for all the noise. For most companies, subdividing individual offices for each employee isn't a feasible solution, which is one reason why organizations prefer open floor plans. Office pods are the solution. Pods can be made available to employees who need them on an as-needed basis. Instead of providing enclosed office space for everyone, employees can share the pods, giving their overstimulated senses the rest they need.

While having a walled-in office space for each employee may boost employee focus, the setup is costly and may hinder collaboration. Open floor plans are popular, in part, for supporting serendipitous meetups, interdepartmental communication, and continual collaboration. The best way to get the most out of both open and closed office arrangements is to incorporate office pods in the floor plan. Building permanent enclosed offices can require expensive renovations. Pods are a perfect, cost-effective solution for making sure employees have an enclosed space when they need one. Office pods are scalable and can be added to the office wherever they're needed. What’s more, they can be moved when the seating plan changes or whenever the office manager decides they'd be more effective in another spot.

Not only do pods help reduce office fatigue and boost productivity, but they also support remote employees and clients. In an open office, meeting rooms are often the only spaces quiet enough to participate in a quality virtual meeting. This deficit is the main reason why conference rooms and meeting rooms are often only occupied by one or two people. Imagine this: you're on an important call with a team based in Japan but Joel beside you won't stop slurping the dregs out of his smoothie cup. Behind you, Rachel is struggling to focus on her work while you brainstorm with your Japan-based team. If your office had pods, you could have taken the call in the isolation of a small space with minimal noise. Pods don’t only help the people using them, but they offer spaces for employees to take noisy calls or slurp their smoothies. With small, noise-canceling rooms around the workplace, employees can escape office bedlam and also contain their noisy habits. This division is a recipe for worthwhile conference calls with minimal distractions.

Customers thrive under one-on-one attention from employees. Whether a member of sales, support, client relations, or another team, employees need quiet spaces with minimal distractions to provide customers with their undivided attention. Such focused attention can have a great impact on sales close rates and customer retention, helping your company thrive through and through from the employee experience to the customer experience.