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OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space

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Re: OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space

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Just shy of $25K USD for a small room with a door as a single person's computer-based workspace? This is mind-numbingly stupid. You could hardly meet with a second person in there, let alone do anything on a whiteboard or requiring much more physical space than the small desk inside. Why do tiny, minimalist things always cost so much ?

These are all very good points. However, I would take one over a cubicle in a heartbeat.

Re: OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space

#33

Just shy of $25K USD for a small room with a door as a single person's computer-based workspace? This is mind-numbingly stupid. You could hardly meet with a second person in there, let alone do anything on a whiteboard or requiring much more physical space than the small desk inside. Why do tiny, minimalist things always cost so much ?

In a place where land was expensive it might make economic sense. E.g. in Old Palo Alto houses cost about $1000 per square foot.

Re: OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space

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post #32

Nice looking, but you'd roast in one of these in California. They should add a fabric shade on top of it that extends at least 3 feet past the footprint on each side.

And you'd freeze in one of these in Canada. Unless you have a space heater, but in that case their claims of environmental benefits go out the window.

Re: OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space

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post #31

Just shy of $25K USD for a small room with a door as a single person's computer-based workspace? This is mind-numbingly stupid. You could hardly meet with a second person in there, let alone do anything on a whiteboard or requiring much more physical space than the small desk inside. Why do tiny, minimalist things always cost so much ?

These are all very good points. However, I would take one over a cubicle in a heartbeat.

I don't have a link handy, but this is very close to the initial concept for cubicles. Then middle managers intervened.

Re: OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space

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post #32

Nice looking, but you'd roast in one of these in California. They should add a fabric shade on top of it that extends at least 3 feet past the footprint on each side.

And you'd freeze in one of these in Canada. Unless you have a space heater, but in that case their claims of environmental benefits go out the window.

Assuming that's double paned class and that the rest is well insulated it'd be fine. Not everything in the world is constructed as shoddily as most houses in North America. We've got double paned windows and when it's -10°C out I can put my hand on them and they're only cool to the touch, not cold.

Re: OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you'd freeze in one of these in Canada. Unless you have a space heater, but in that case their claims of environmental benefits go out the window.

Assuming that's double paned class and that the rest is well insulated it'd be fine. Not everything in the world is constructed as shoddily as most houses in North America. We've got double paned windows and when it's -10°C out I can put my hand on them and they're only cool to the touch, not cold.

As soon as you open the door, whoosh

Re: OfficePod - Tiny, Minimalist Office Space

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post #39

Looks horrendous. Who wants to work inside a tiny box?

Agreed. If I was designing something like that, it would have a motorized roof. And a comfier chair. And a bigger desk. And be more like an open space which closed up for security at night than a closed space all the time. Or even, more like sitting outside with a laptop on a patio table and instead of walls closing around for security, you go back inside...

PS. Gardners want to work in tiny glass boxes because plants grow better in the warm humid greenhousy atmosphere. Maybe ideas do too?

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