XL Pod

We bought the XL at the same time as our L Pod and went with the green exterior, Rosewood interior, partial solid back wall and bar-height setup. Rosewood is a pretty bold pink in person, but against the green it actually works for our space. We mounted a monitor on the solid section and that is now where the team does schedule reviews, quick presentations and standing meetings. Six stools is useful when everybody is there, though most days it is three or four of us. It has ended up being one of the most-used rooms in the office.

We put two XL Pods inside our warehouse so the teams would have proper meeting space without us having to frame out rooms and disrupt the floor. Both are charcoal outside with the cobalt interior, six meeting chairs, a table and the partial solid back wall. Now two groups can meet at the same time and we are not constantly pulling people across the building to the main conference room. They look surprisingly finished in an industrial space and have been booked heavily since they went in.

The XL has become the room our project team grabs when a normal conference room feels too formal or is already booked. Four or five people can spread out with laptops, plans and samples without feeling jammed together, and six still works when we need every seat. What I like most is that it feels like a real room once you are inside, but we did not have to turn the office into a construction project to add it.

We went with the six meeting chairs and full table and use this more for project workshops than formal meetings. Four or five people with laptops and printed material is the sweet spot, but all six seats get used when a deadline is close. There is enough table space that nobody is balancing a notebook on their lap, and we still have room to get in and out without moving chairs around.

We originally ordered the XL with switchable privacy glass and thought we could keep the faster delivery. That part was confusing. We found out the privacy glass, along with some of the other add-ons we were considering, moves the pod into a custom order. We were on a deadline so we dropped the glass and stayed with the standard configuration. After that change the delivery was quick and the pod itself has been excellent. Four stars only because I wish the Quick Ship versus custom option list had been clearer before we got into the order.