Promotion: buying office pods instead of building meeting rooms could save companies in the US around $30 billion by 2030, according to research by soundproof booth manufacturer Framery and real-estate investor CBRE. More
Dezeen Showroom: office furniture brand Actiu has launched Qyos, its first acoustic meeting pod, designed to create "islands of privacy". More
Dezeen Showroom: workspace furniture brand Spacestor has created Verandas, a customisable meeting room pod that can fit any space and be reused when the configuration no longer suits. More
Dezeen Showroom: recycled acoustic specialist Impact Acoustic has created a range of soundproof booths that can be installed in offices to create private meeting rooms. More
Indian architecture studio Charged Voids has designed Office 543 around an elliptic meeting room with granite walls, which is a private space among the glass-walled offices. More
New York firm Float Studio has created neutral offices in Lower Manhattan for Meet in Place, a company that rents rooms for meetings and other events. More
A pair of conference rooms are housed within a sculptural glass and plywood volume at the centre of this Los Angeles office, created by California studio Domaen in a converted warehouse (+ slideshow). More
Within the intricately moulded interiors of this Parisian office block, architect Estelle Vincent has inserted a trio of boxy timber meeting spaces – one of which is can be exited down a pale blue slide (+ slideshow). More
Canadian design firm MSDS Studio has fitted out a Toronto warehouse with modular boxes to form offices for e-commerce company Shopify (+ slideshow). More
A three-lane running track weaves around this office for a football app company, designed by architects TKEZ, leading to goals for penalty shootouts during work breaks (+ slideshow). More
A wooden pod resembling the woven structure of a bird's nest can be used for meetings at this sales office for a property development in Mumbai by local firm Planet 3 Studios (+ slideshow). More
Brightly coloured pods resembling submarines contain meeting rooms at the new Moscow office for internet company Yandex by Russian studio Za Bor Architects (+ slideshow). More
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a meeting room in a London hotel where guests can relax beneath a canopy with an image of trees projected onto its surface (+ slideshow). More