I sit outside a conference room. It is popular and large enough for ~15 people. Most folks appathetically shuffle in and once the group is assembled, they shut the door and begin the meeting, but ...

If you’re in a confidential meeting with the boardroom door closed, the air can get stale pretty fast. Should it be too cold outside to crack any windows, or if the room simply has no windows ...

This is a $499 six-inch unit that's meant to be mounted outside meeting room doors. Image: Visionect. I was also sent a Joan Board, a 13-inch $1199 unit that can book multiple conference rooms.

For example, after Compass introduced ROOM’s booths, which offer four square feet of private space, each was used an average of 30 times per day, decreasing wasted space in conference rooms.

The conference room is perhaps the least loved space in the modern office. Typically long and narrow, with a rectangular table presided over by a boss at one end, it’s the place where countless ...