Open office is too noisy? This "breathable silent cabin" has become a magic weapon for workers to extend their lives!

In an open office with keyboard sounds, conference discussion sounds, and printer roars, finding a corner where you can call customers and hold video conferences with peace of mind is harder than grab an elevator? This spring, the "office telephone booths" in office buildings in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen suddenly became Internet celebrities - these independent spaces that cover less than 2 square meters are counterattacking from the "edge of being disliked" to the "necessary needs of workers", and even gave birth to a new consensus in the workplace that "there is a telephone booth next to the workstation = a fairy company".

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Data shows that in 2024, the number of office telephone booths in major cities across the country increased by 300% year-on-year. Meituan's joint office space survey showed that the rent premium for workstations equipped with independent telephone booths reached 25%. "The traditional lattice telephone booth can only make phone calls. The current 'smart silent cabin' is equipped with a fresh air system, a sitting reminder pad for a long time, and can even connect to the OA system to make appointments for meetings," said the person in charge of an office equipment supplier. Xiaohongshu has more than 500,000 notes on "Office Telephone Booth Evaluation" on Xiaohongshu, and "can use full makeup in the telephone booth to shoot commuter vlogs" to become a new grass planting point.

[Functional volume: From "Call" to "Almighty Capsule Space"]

Internet company version: ByteDance upgraded the phone booth to a "small black room for interviews", with built-in dual-camera cameras and teleprompt screens. HR jokingly said that "you no longer have to use the conference room to pretend you are professional."

Improved models for foreign companies: A telephone booth of an investment bank in Lujiazui, Shanghai is equipped with bilingual translation headphones, which supports real-time voice translator, and the glass curtain wall can be atomized with one click, "the sense of security is full when chatting with customers about sensitive data";

Startup company's brainstorm: A cultural and creative team in Chengdu transformed the telephone booth into a "inspiration first aid station". The inner wall was covered with sticky notes, and the built-in aromatherapy machine and white noise equipment were built. "When writing the plan was stuck, you went in for 10 minutes and your efficiency was comparable to a coffee initiation."

Can't find a place before the next meeting? You might as well take a look at the small box at the end of the corridor - there may be "workplace life-sustaining equipment" that is more important than WiFi.

What does your company's phone booth look like? If you are asked to design, what function do you want to add most?