Office phone booths

Solo or Solo Plus, and how to tell which you need

Both take one person. They are for different work, and choosing wrong is the most common mistake we see.

Solo has a curved worktop and an optional pedestal stool. It is the smallest footprint in the range and it is built for the short call: step in, take the call, step out. If your problem is phone calls and video calls of ten or twenty minutes, this is the one, and it is the cheapest way to solve it.

Solo Plus takes a full-size ergonomic swivel chair and a proper working desk. It is for someone who will sit in it for two hours doing focused work, or who runs back-to-back calls all morning. The extra footprint buys posture, and posture is what decides whether people use it for long sessions or go back to their desk.

If you are buying more than one, a mix usually beats a matched set. Most floors need more Solos than Solo Pluses.

How many, and where

A common starting point is one booth for every ten to fifteen desks, but treat that as a place to begin rather than a rule. The real number comes from watching your own floor for a week: count how often someone walks out to take a call, and how often a meeting room gets booked by one person for a phone call. Those two counts are your demand.

Placement decides utilisation more than quantity does. Put booths on the route people already walk and visible from the desks they serve. A booth around a corner gets used by the people who already knew it was there and nobody else. Do not put them in the quiet zone, because that creates a stream of people walking through the space that exists to be undisturbed.

Start with fewer than you think and add. A floor with three booths permanently occupied has learned something useful; a floor with twelve half-used ones has learned an expensive lesson.

What makes a booth actually get used

Three things, and only one of them is acoustics.

It has to be quiet enough that the call is private, which means a speech level reduction figure measured on the assembled booth. Ours is laboratory tested at 30.5–30.8 dB under ISO 23351-1, which in a normal office puts a conversation inside below the room's own noise floor.

It has to be comfortable enough for the length of call people actually make. Adjustable ventilation is standard, and it matters: an unventilated box is unpleasant within about forty minutes and people stop going in.

And it has to look like somewhere you would take a client call from. Laminated glass front and rear, dimmable lighting with adjustable colour temperature so you are lit properly on camera, and an occupancy light so nobody opens the door mid-call.

Every model, priced

No enquiry needed. Furniture and installation are separate lines so you can see what each part adds.

Prices are for the pod in the configuration you choose. Finishes, furniture and compatible extras are listed separately as you build. Delivery and handling, selected installation and any applicable tax are confirmed on your written quotation, so the total you approve is the total you pay.

What is included as standard

Every FocusPod arrives with laminated glass front and rear, layered acoustic insulation, adjustable ventilation, dimmable LED lighting with adjustable colour temperature, power and an occupancy light. Speech level reduction is laboratory tested at 30.5–30.8 dB under ISO 23351-1, the international standard written specifically for pods. Every pod is covered by our five-year structural and electrical warranty.

There is no separate charge for the black or white exterior or for the standard interior palette. Other exterior colours use the displayed upgrade price, and a custom interior colour is priced per pod. All of it is listed separately as you build, so nothing arrives as a surprise on the quotation.

See it properly before you decide

Take a look inside. The film below walks through the Solo, the most compact model in the range, and the 3D configurator lets you turn any model around, change the finishes and try the furniture layouts. If you would rather be walked through it, we will do a live video walkthrough of the pod you are considering and answer questions as we go.

Common questions

Start with your room

Measure the space, count the people who will use it, and build the configuration. A few minutes, no payment needed, and a real number at the end of it.