Companies are buying these portable soundproof rooms like crazy to fix the worst thing about their open floor offices

• Room is a new company that’s created private, semi-soundproof phone booths for noisy, crowded offices.
• Already, the company has snagged high profile clients like NASA, Salesforce, and Nike.
• Room says they’re on track to sell $US10 million worth of product in their first year of business.

If you work in an open office, it’s likely that you’ve ducked into a hallway, a closet, or even the bathroom to get a few moments of quiet to make a phone call.

With the move to the open office and the collective banishment of cubicles, finding a quiet, private place can sometimes be close to impossible.

The scarcity of distraction-free zones in the modern workplace is all too familiar to Morten Meisner-Jensen, co-founder of Room, a New York-based startup.

While Room was originally born to accommodate the ever-changing, scrappy dynamic of the startup office environment, in the company’s first few months of operation, they have snagged some bigger clients as well. NASA, Nike, and Salesforce are all among Room’s first clients. Already, says Meisner-Jensen, Room is on track to sell $US10 million worth of phone booths by mid-2019, at about $US3,500 a pop. Read more

Zoe Bernard - Business Insider Australia - 13 Aug 2018