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Fitout strategy
How many pods does a floor actually need?
The question every office asks after the first pod goes in, usually about three weeks later.
As a working ratio: one pod per fifteen people for a team taking normal call volumes, and one per eight to ten for sales, recruitment or anything client-facing. Below that, people find the booth occupied, stop trying, and go back to taking calls at their desk — which is the single most common way a pod purchase disappoints.
Why one is rarely enough
The failure mode is behavioural rather than technical. Someone walks up, finds the booth in use, and goes back to their desk. They try again the three-week lead time, find it occupied again, and after that they stop checking.
Two strikes is all it takes. The pod is still there, still performing exactly as specified, and the behaviour it was bought to change has quietly reverted. A second booth does not double the capacity so much as it removes the reason people give up.
This is why we would rather sell someone two Solos than one Solo Plus at a similar total. Two smaller booths on a floor outperform one better booth almost every time.
The ratios
By team type| Team | Ratio | Why |
|---|---|---|
| General office, mixed roles | 1 per 15 | Call volume is intermittent and spread through the day |
| Sales, recruitment, client-facing | 1 per 8–10 | Calls are constant and cluster in the same hours |
| Contact centre or heavy phone use | 1 per 6–8 | Near-continuous occupancy. Ventilation and door wear matter more here too |
| Engineering, design, deep work | 1 per 20 | Fewer calls, but longer sessions — favour a larger single booth |
| Any floor, minimum | 2 | Whatever the headcount. One is the number that gets abandoned |
Meeting pods are a different calculation
Phone booths scale with headcount. Meeting pods scale with how badly your existing meeting rooms are being misused.
The tell is one-person calls in six-person rooms. If your bookable rooms are permanently full and half the bookings are a single person on a video call, you do not need more meeting rooms — you need somewhere else for those calls to happen. One or two phone booths will hand the rooms back.
If the rooms are genuinely full of actual meetings, that is when a four or six-person pod earns its place, and it costs a fraction of building the equivalent room.
Where they go matters as much as how many
A pod in the wrong place is a pod nobody uses, regardless of the ratio.
Put it where the noise already is. The instinct is to place a booth in the quiet corner where there is spare floor. That is precisely wrong — people will not cross the office to take a call. Site it within a few metres of the desks generating the noise, ideally on the sales or client-facing side.
Two together beats two apart. A pair in one location reads as a facility. The same two scattered across a floor read as two occupied booths.
Watch the sightlines. Booths with glazed doors placed directly facing a bank of desks get used less, because people feel observed. Angle them, or use frosted or switchable glass.
Sizing the order
What that looks like in practice| Model | Solo | Solo Plus | Duo | Team | Meet | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | 1 person | 1 person | 2 people | 2 people | 4 people | 6 people |
| Exterior W×D×H | 1080 × 1000 × 2338 mm | 1600 × 1375 × 2338 mm | 1600 × 1375 × 2338 mm | 2300 × 966 × 2338 mm | 2300 × 1785 × 2338 mm | 2600 × 2605 × 2338 mm |
| Interior W×D×H | 942 × 960 × 2146 mm | 1462 × 1335 × 2146 mm | 1462 × 1335 × 2146 mm | 2162 × 926 × 2146 mm | 2162 × 1745 × 2146 mm | 2462 × 2565 × 2146 mm |
| Floor space | ~1.0 m² | ~2.2 m² | ~2.2 m² | ~2.2 m² | ~4.1 m² | ~6.77 m² |
| Weight | 290–335 kg | 442–502 kg | 442–502 kg | 504–564 kg | 635–700 kg | 852–970 kg |
| Ventilation | 0–70 m³/h | 0–110 m³/h | 0–110 m³/h | 0–110 m³/h | 0–218 m³/h | 0–327 m³/h |
| Air change | ~1.6 min | ~2.3 min | ~2.3 min | ~2.3 min | ~2.2 min | ~2.4 min |
| Power draw | 40 W | 52 W | 52 W | 60 W | 120 W | 120 W |
| Price from | $10,730ex GST, delivered | $14,505ex GST, delivered | $14,625ex GST, delivered | $15,630ex GST, delivered | $17,605ex GST, delivered | $20,335ex GST, delivered |
| Installation | + $1,145 ex GST | + $1,490 ex GST | + $1,490 ex GST | + $1,610 ex GST | + $1,725 ex GST | + $2,070 ex GST |
Multi-unit pricing applies from the second pod and improves with quantity — we apply it automatically rather than waiting to be asked.
What customers say
Named, with permission★★★★★
“We added a FocusPod Solo because private phone calls were becoming difficult in our open-plan office. It gets used constantly for client calls, Zoom meetings and focused work. It looks professional, takes up very little space and has freed up our meeting rooms for larger groups.”
Emily Carter
Harbour Lane Finance
★★★★★
“We originally purchased one FocusPod Solo to see how much use it would get. Within the first week, staff were booking it throughout the day. It has given everyone a quiet place to take calls without interrupting the rest of the office.”
Daniel Brooks
Westbridge Property Group
★★★★★
“The Solo has been a great addition to our studio. We have a collaborative workspace, which is excellent most of the time, but it can be difficult when someone needs privacy or complete concentration. The pod solves that problem without taking over the room.”
Sarah Mitchell
Coastline Creative
Common questions
How many office pods does an office need?
One per fifteen people for a team with normal call volumes, and one per eight to ten for sales, recruitment or client-facing teams. Two is a sensible minimum on any floor regardless of headcount, because a single booth found occupied twice stops being used.
Is one office pod enough?
Rarely. The most common disappointment with pods is a single booth that is always in use — people try twice, find it busy, and revert to taking calls at their desk. Two smaller booths usually outperform one larger one.
How many phone booths per employee?
Roughly one per fifteen employees in a general office. Contact centres and sales floors need closer to one per eight, because calls cluster in the same hours rather than spreading across the day.
Where should an office pod be placed?
Within a few metres of the desks generating the noise, not in the quiet corner with spare floor space. People will not cross an office to take a call. Avoid pointing a glazed door straight at a bank of desks, since people use booths less when they feel watched.
Do we need meeting pods or phone booths?
If your meeting rooms are full of one-person video calls, you need phone booths — they hand the rooms back. If the rooms are genuinely full of real meetings, a four or six-person pod is the answer and costs a fraction of building the equivalent room.
Related: one-person booths · meeting pods for two to six · pod versus building a room · the cost calculator
Send us the floor plan.
Mark where the noise is and roughly how many people sit there. We will tell you how many pods, which models, and where they should go.