Workplace acoustics
Open-plan noise in IT services: why a quiet floor became a busy one
How call traffic on IT services floors quietly tripled, and why headsets stopped being enough.
September 2025 · 8 min read
Editorial
Long-form writing on office booths and modern workplace acoustics
Buyer guides, workplace context, and the kind of question that does not fit on a category page.
We write what we wish we'd had when we first started looking at office booths for a real workplace. Each piece answers one buyer-side question fully — no vendor press releases, no repackaged catalogue content. Where a piece has a commercial slant, we say so.
Featured
Buying guide · The buying guide
Acoustic booth buying guide for modern offices
A long, honest buyer guide. What to look at, what to ignore in the marketing, and how to translate a spec sheet into what your floor will actually sound like.
12 min read · September 2025 Read →
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Workplace history
From cubicle to booth: how modern offices skipped a generation
Many modern markets never had the long cubicle decade Western offices did. That has consequences for how the booth category lands today.
September 2025 · 7 min read
Editorial
What "telephone booth" means in a modern office
The name is a hold-over from a 1950s street object, but the use case has shifted under it.
September 2025 · 6 min read
Coworking
Coworking acoustics: the booth as competitive amenity
Coworking operators learned faster than corporates that the booth count is a leasing question.
October 2025 · 8 min read
Workplace strategy
Hybrid work and the office redesign
Hot-desking, return-to-office, and the realisation that the floor needs different rooms now.
October 2025 · 8 min read
HR & people ops
How HR teams handle office noise complaints
The HR side of the acoustic conversation. What complaints really mean, and how to triage them.
October 2025 · 7 min read
Seasonal maintenance
A humid-season acoustic checklist for offices
Humidity, swelling door frames, rain on the roof and what each of them does to office acoustic performance.
October 2025 · 9 min read
Linguistics
Photo booth vs office booth — the linguistic accident
Why the same word ends up describing both the sequinned photo cabin at a wedding and the sealed acoustic pod on a modern office floor.
November 2025 · 7 min read