S Pod

Market prices run the gamut—from no-frills imports around $4,000 to boutique European booths well north of $12,000. The PrivacyPod S Pod sits smartly in the middle at $6,495 after freight, a figure that already includes dual-fan ventilation, motion-sensing LEDs, tempered-glass door, and a Grade-A steel frame. Because we build in one ISO-9001 facility and sell factory-direct, the number you see is the number you pay—no dealer margin, no Manhattan showroom overhead baked in. For context, traditional drywall plus glazing for a one-person call room typically tops $10K once permits, trades, and patch-paint are tallied, and you can’t roll that room onto the truck when your lease is up.

Return on investment lives at the intersection of acoustic performance, floor-plate efficiency, and lifecycle flexibility. The S Pod blocks roughly 30 dB in the speech band—enough privacy that HR calls stay confidential—while claiming just one square meter of real estate. With a three-year warranty and an average install time under 45 minutes, most customers recoup the outlay in meeting-room availability alone: a 2024 CBRE study found conference rooms of any size are occupied by a single person 38 % of the time. Drop in one S Pod, free up a larger room for its intended purpose, and you’ve offset the booth cost before the fiscal year closes.

Open-plan offices were great for serendipitous chats—until video calls became the primary mode of work. A 2023 Leesman Index report notes that 62 % of employees list noise as the top barrier to productivity. Every minute spent pacing the hallway for a quiet corner is paid for twice: in lost focus and in misused square footage. A dedicated privacy pod provides an always-available “acoustic seatbelt,” letting staff hop on Zoom, record content, or dive into heads-down work without monopolizing a six-person meeting room—or worse, the stairwell. Plus, because the S Pod ships flat and reassembles without permits, it travels with you when the company scales or the lease changes.

Three converging forces. Hybrid work means half your team is on camera at any given moment, creating a spike in demand for solo call space. Well-being standards (WELL v2, LEED for Interiors) now measure acoustic comfort, nudging organizations to add quiet zones that don’t require demolition. And sustainability mandates are pushing firms toward relocatable, low-carbon solutions; Columbia University’s Center for Buildings found modular pods can cut embodied carbon by up to 30 % over a 10-year span compared with fixed drywall. Add a tight labor market—where talent weighs workplace experience heavily—and it’s clear why privacy pods have moved from “nice-to-have” to “must-have” in forward-thinking offices.

Think of it as micro-architecture on wheels. A modern office phone booth—often called a privacy pod or acoustic booth—is a pre-engineered room‐within-a-room that ships flat, rolls through a doorway, and bolts together in under an hour. The walls combine high-mass sound-blocking cores with recycled PET acoustic felt that tamps down interior echo, while the door is laminated safety glass for daylight and a professional backdrop on camera. Inside you’ll find task lighting set to ~4000 K, silent ventilation that fully exchanges air every minute, and an integrated power bar with USB-C so your laptop, monitor, or ring-light stay topped up. Because everything is factory-certified (UL electrics, ANSI glass, Class A panels) you skip permits, drywall dust, and the five-figure price tag of traditional construction—yet gain a dedicated space for calls, Zooms, podcasting, or heads-down work the moment you plug it in.

The S Pod occupies just over one square meter of floor—roughly the footprint of a standard desk—yet gives you full standing headroom:

Exterior: 42.5 in W × 39.4 in D × 91.6 in H

Interior: 37.1 in W × 37.8 in D × 84.5 in H

That’s plenty for our bench-and-tablet setup or a sit-stand stool paired with a floating shelf. Planning rules of thumb: leave 3 in behind for airflow, 40 in in front for the door swing, and a standard 120 V outlet within the included 8-ft cord.

Independent tests to ISO 23351-1 rate the S Pod at STC 30 dB (±3 dB). In plain language, a 70 dB hallway conversation is hushed to about 40 dB—library quiet—inside the booth, while your call leaks out as an indistinct murmur. That balance keeps speech private without the “dead room” effect that fatigues users. Acoustic performance comes from a five-layer wall assembly—steel, MDF mass layer, dual-density PET insulation, and wool-felt finish—plus perimeter gaskets that seal shut like a studio door.

The entire booth runs on a single 15-amp, 120-volt circuit—no electrician needed. Inside the pod, the user has access to (2) tamper-resistant AC outlets, USB-A and USB-C fast-charge ports, and Motion-controlled LED strip and twin fans.

Need hardline connectivity? Add our Ethernet port kit; the patch panel sits flush beneath the desk so you can plug in a laptop or PoE phone without snaking cables through the door.