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I wish... we've had these at my current and previous job, and they're busy all day with people joining remote meetings. This was true even pre-pandemic. The last time I went in to the office I was stuck in one for 4 hours of back to back calls. Wondering why I made the commute...

Yep, we have them in our office and I used them a ton for phone calls pre-pandemic. I always jokingly called them "screaming shacks" but never saw anyone realize their stress reducing potential.

As a manager of a distributed team at a non-central office in a large company, this is most of my day. Yet, I still need to be in the office three days a week...

If you want to debug nginx internals without listening to sales all day, and your office has some of these pods, they seem like a good place to go.

What we used to call a phone booth, then.