Fewer walls, more clarity, fewer errors, and greater productivity.

ADTO Office Phone Booths are designed for a modular implementation. A single booth can work adequately within a smaller company, or several booths distributed across larger spaces as needed.

Modular scaling means the system can adapt to company needs, as opposed to the significant over-investment in dedicated conference facilities that often overkill for smaller working groups. All of our office phone booths are portable.

The Comfort Booth is for single person use and the Executive Booth for two seated occupants, more if standing. Each can be specified in either maple or a white/maple finish to blend in effectively with the surrounding office space decor.

Put simply, opening up the workspace and herding your entire team into the same room multiplies the potential for an overload of sensory stimulation. Sightlines lead the eye to every movement, while conversations cease to endow privacy.

The tradition of reserving gossip for the water cooler becomes irrelevant as everything is heard by willing (or unwilling) ears. Perhaps as an indication of the need for privacy and focus, colleagues don noise-canceling earphones and disappear into self-created bubbles of seclusion.

Silence descends upon the office, punctuated only by keystrokes and furtive glances. It’s difficult to tell whether this is an improvement on the prior state of affairs, or if something else entirely is required to obviate the deathly enforced stillness.

Perhaps this vision of working seems rather draconian or far-fetched? It must indeed be noted that open-plan workspace has been researched and shown to foster a symbolic feeling of organizational mission, but such sentiments soon disappear under a blanket of productivity loss, reduced creativity, shortened attention spans, and general unhappiness.

There is, however, something to be said for the experience of the open office. It can feel transparent and an environment in which clear visibility must mean an honest expression of information. Perhaps critically, it shuns the extensive tradition of establishing visible hierarchies by closing doors, promoting aspirational needs to advance to a window office, and the feeling of informational dishonesty.