As we know, open-plan workspace facilitates staff communicating with each other. They could directly walk to someone’s desk to discuss the problems. However, open-plan workspace has its obvious disadvantages: it would make much noise in the workplace. The common noise comes from the rapid tapping sound in the keyboard, people’s conversations. Of course, we will be influenced by outside noise to some extent, like car horns sounding.

If we stay at too much noisy working environment, we will be tend to distracted, leading to poor performance and low productivity, which decreases staff’s working efficiency and affect the quality of work.

Moreover, imagine that staff need to call with someone temporarily, but the surrounding environment is too noisy to suitable to talk with someone on the phone. In addition, sometimes staff need to have an online meeting with someone. Due to the prevalence of remote working, this way is becoming more and more common nowadays.

Besides, some companies with hybrid working model allow their staff to choose how and where they work—working in an office environment and working from home. However, they have such concern: as their temporary workspace, whether their desk is used by others before they arrive at the company.

In a word, staff sometimes need a quiet and private space for personal using while it is impossible that every staff owns a office. Consequently, some companies would adopt the office pods to provide staff with shared working space.