Office Phone Booth

The Office Phone Booth offers a much-needed privacy solution in today’s open office. More and more  businesses are moving toward open office space in order to boost creativity and team collaboration. But increasing the level of collaboration often comes at the cost of focus and privacy, especially if you need to make a private phone call or just need a quiet place to think.

The Whisperbox privacy pod can help open offices to improve the look, feel and function of their environment, without the need to re-locate or undergo extensive remodeling. Whisperbox is a movable, easy to assemble, high-quality product which can transform your office space into an environment offering both high level of collaboration and privacy where your employees would be exited to work. 

What is an office phone booth?

The kit-based Whisperbox privacy pod is inspired by the classic street corner phone booths and offers a comfotable and quiet place where you can make an important call or any other task which requires privacy. No need to sacrifice your focus while working in an open office environment, with Whisperbox you can retain the high level of collaboration and offer your employees a place for quiet isolation at the same time, having the best of both worlds.

What are the benefits?

Open offices are collaborative office spaces, featuring open office workstations resulting in casual, friendly, approachable and supportive environments great for teamwork. Such environments are used in creative industries like marketing, film-making, PR, etc. The close proximity of each colleague enables quickly and efficiently discussing ideas in detail and makes people feel like part of a team.

According to The Washington Post, nearly 70% of US office workers are working in an open office environment. Despite benefits such as increased level of team work, easier to track employees and reduced overall costs there is a great deal of criticism around the open office idea. In many cases where an office privacy booth is not present, productivity actually decreases due to lack of privacy and noise distractions. 

In 2011, organizational psychologist Matthew Davis reviewed more than a hundred studies about office environments. He concluded that, despite open work spaces creating a symbolic sense of organizational mission, they were actually damaging to the workers’ attention spans, productivity, creative thinking, and satisfaction. His review of more than 100 office environment studies showed higher levels of stress and lower levels of focus in open office layouts.

50% of more than 42,000 workers interviewed in the USA, Canada, Australia and Finland feel frustrated by the lack of privacy and especially sound privacy in their open office workspaces. “We found people in open plan offices were less satisfied with their workplace environment than those in private offices,” said Jungsoo Kim, a researcher at the University of Sydney.

If you want both engaged and productive employees, look beyound a cubicles-filled office or a completely open workspace. Think about what your workers need to complete their tasks in the most efficient way. Create an environment which offers a variety of workspaces and let your staff choose where they want to work.

Of course it's not an easy task to reconfigure an entire office without complications, but the Whisperbox phone booth for office changes that. The office phone booth can be the perfect place of solitude within the loud open office environment, providing a quiet place which you can use for phone calls, online meetings or simply focus your attention on an important task. 

Your employees will still be in the same busy office, but they will have a soundproof and creative private workspace to feel a world apart when they need to get down to some serious business. And you don't need to worry about disturbing the office workflow during the transition - two people can easily assemble Whisperbox in less than an hour.