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With the HUUS One, you can create a space for productive work and undisturbed calls in just 1m² . Find out why HUUS is the right choice for your office, too.

More focus.
On just 1m².

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HUUS One
The phone booth for productive teams

Telephone answering machine: Noise off. Concentration on.

A phone booth is the fastest way to create more focus in the office. No renovations required. Just a dedicated space where calls can happen without interruptions, while everyone else can keep working without distractions.
With just 1 m² of space, you can bring more quiet and privacy to your office—without redesigning it.

Office acoustics: How to better combine quiet, focus, and communication

Office acoustics play a more significant role in work quality today than many spatial concepts might initially suggest. Especially in open-plan offices, a modern and functionally designed space is no longer sufficient. If conversations, phone calls, video calls, and background noise are constantly present, focused work quickly becomes exhausting. Good office acoustics are therefore not a mere detail, but a crucial prerequisite for enabling both focus and collaboration to function effectively.

It's not just about volume. Office acoustics always affect perception, speech intelligibility, and mental strain. A room can be perfectly loud on paper and still be perceived as disruptive. The reason often lies in the nature of the sound: speech, reverberation, and recurring interruptions affect the brain differently than consistent background noise. This is where solutions like the HUUS Boxes come in. They create designated spaces for conversations, video calls, focused work, and small meetings, instead of allowing these activities to take place unchecked in the open space. HUUS One and HUUS Call are designed for one person, while HUUS Meet adds a dedicated area for conversations and collaboration with up to four people.

What 700+ customers say

HUUS is the perfect addition to our dynamic workspaces, supporting a community of 3,500 members. The booths create essential spaces for focused work and collaboration within our large, open-plan environments.

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Tala Mortada
Chief Design Officer, Factory Berlin
We tested a range of office phone booths, and HUUS delivers the best combination of sound insulation and comfort. The height-adjustable sit-stand desks are exceptional.
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Moritz Schubert
Head of Brand Partnerships, OMR
We upgraded our old phone booths to HUUS, and the difference is noticeable every day. The build quality is exceptional, and the custom design options allowed us to match the booths perfectly to our office, making them feel like a natural part of the workspace.
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Leo Marose
Founder & CEO, Stackfuel

Flexibility is essential for us as a fast-growing company, and that's exactly what HUUS delivers. We can easily adapt our office as our needs change, and when it's time to move or expand, the booths move with us.

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Tara
Workplace Project Manager Lead, Gorillas

Your office without phone booths...

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Every day, valuable work time is lost to distractions.
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Office noise levels can reach the same level of exposure as a household vacuum cleaner.
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Office employees struggle with reduced concentration.
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1.5h

Every day, valuable work time is lost to distractions.

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60 dB

Office noise levels can reach the same level of exposure as a household vacuum cleaner.

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50%

Office employees struggle with reduced concentration.

Why office acoustics are so often underestimated

Many offices initially appear perfectly fine. People work, talk, make phone calls, and coordinate. It's only in everyday life that it becomes apparent how much this mix can drain concentration. The problem is often not a single loud event, but the sum of speech stimuli, reverberation, and constantly changing sound sources. An important factor here is reverberation time. This describes how long a sound event remains audible in the room before it clearly fades away. If this time is too long, a reverberant atmosphere quickly develops. The room feels restless, speech carries further, and the brain constantly has to distinguish between the actual information and the acoustic reverberation. This effect makes many open-plan offices more tiring than their decibel rating alone would suggest.

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  • Sound insulation class A: -30 dB
  • 2x Air exchange per minute
  • Ergonomically adjustable
  • 100-day return policy
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  • Professional setup
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What good office acoustics really need to achieve

Good acoustics don't mean an office has to be completely silent. That would be neither realistic nor practical in everyday life. A functioning office needs exchange, coordination, and spontaneous communication. The crucial factor is something else: conversations and focus must be coordinated so they don't constantly interfere with each other. Several layers are important for this. Surfaces must reduce reverberation. The space should be structured so that direct sound doesn't travel unimpeded through the room. And for particularly disruptive activities like phone calls, video calls, or confidential conversations, there need to be designated areas that specifically remove these activities from the open space. This interplay results in noticeably better office acoustics.

Why speech is the biggest acoustic problem

Not every noise in the office has the same impact. From a psychoacoustic perspective, speech is particularly relevant. Our brains are designed to process human speech instantly. You can't simply block it out like a constant fan noise. Even quiet snippets of conversation in the background draw attention and interrupt cognitive work. That's why spoken words are often perceived as the biggest distraction in open-plan offices. In addition, there's the so-called Lombard effect. When the ambient noise level in the room rises, people automatically speak louder to make themselves heard more clearly. This further increases the volume. It creates a cycle that can make open spaces increasingly noisy throughout the day. A soundproof booth interrupts this mechanism because it physically removes the loudest speakers from the room. This improves the conversation within the booth and simultaneously reduces the overall noise level for those around it.

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  • Sound insulation: -30 dB
  • 2x Air exchange per minute
  • 100-day return policy
  • Customizable
  • Professional setup
  • Made in Europe

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Why speech intelligibility in the office shouldn't be good everywhere

In everyday life, clear speech sounds positive at first. However, in the office, this only applies where a conversation is being consciously conducted. High speech intelligibility over greater distances is more of a problem. If you can clearly understand every word of a conversation several meters away, your attention is almost automatically drawn there.

Office acoustics, therefore, is not about maximum speech clarity throughout the entire room, but about targeted speech intelligibility in the right location. Inside a HUUS Box, conversations should remain pleasant and functional. Outside the box, however, speech should be significantly less perceptible. This way, conversations in open spaces noticeably lose their presence and attract considerably less attention.

Top-Rated Ergonomics

We are proud that our boxes have been awarded the IGR quality seal "Ergonomic Product". This seal was evaluated by the consumer service "Label-online" and received the top rating of "highly recommended".

Which solutions truly improve office acoustics?

Absorbers for improved room acoustics
Ceiling and wall absorbers form the basis of many acoustic improvements. They shorten reverberation time and prevent rooms from sounding echoey or acoustically harsh. This is a particularly important first step in offices with lots of glass, smooth surfaces, and open-plan layouts. Acoustic furniture, carpets, and curtains can also help make a room softer and quieter.

Sound masking as a supplementary measure
Sound masking can be a useful addition. A subtle, consistent background noise reduces speech intelligibility over greater distances, making distant conversations less noticeable. When used correctly, this can work particularly well in combination with sound absorbers. However, it is not a replacement for direct sound sources.

Room-within-a-room solutions as the strongest lever against speech disorders
The greatest impact occurs where speech itself is removed from the room. That's why phone booths, silent pods, and meeting booths play such a crucial role. While absorbers and masking work with existing sound, booths intervene earlier. They relocate phone calls, video calls, confidential conversations, and small meetings to a more acoustically suitable location.

HUUS One offers a compact solution for one person with a height-adjustable folding table, automatic ventilation, lighting, and power and USB ports. HUUS Call is more focused on privacy, high-quality conversations, and intensive everyday use, also for one person. HUUS Meet creates a separate area for up to four people with a sit-stand solution, ventilation, lighting, power, USB, and Ethernet ports, and an optional monitor or camera setup.

Office acoustics: Less reverberation, less distraction, more focus

If you want to improve office acoustics, it's worth looking at the real sources of noise in everyday life. Reducing reverberation is important. Interrupting direct sound paths is equally crucial. The biggest difference, however, is usually how speech is handled. This is precisely where HUUS speakers come in: They create designated spaces for communication without sacrificing the open feel of the office.

This results in better acoustics not just on paper, but in everyday work. Less speech-related distraction, quieter areas, more privacy for sensitive conversations, and better conditions for focused work. That's what good office acoustics are all about today.

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FAQ zur Akustik im Büro

Was gehört zu guter Akustik im Büro?

Gute Büroakustik entsteht nicht durch eine einzelne Maßnahme. Entscheidend ist das Zusammenspiel aus reduziertem Nachhall, sinnvoller Zonierung und geeigneten Rückzugsorten für Gespräche. So können Kommunikation und konzentriertes Arbeiten besser parallel stattfinden.

Was bedeutet Nachhallzeit im Büro?

Die Nachhallzeit beschreibt, wie lange ein Geräusch im Raum hörbar bleibt, nachdem die ursprüngliche Schallquelle aufgehört hat. Ist sie zu lang, wirkt ein Büro schnell hallig und unruhig. Akustisch wirksame Decken, Wände oder Möbel können helfen, diese Reflexionen zu reduzieren.

Warum ist Sprachverständlichkeit im Open Space ein Akustikproblem?

Sprache sollte dort gut verständlich sein, wo ein Gespräch bewusst geführt wird. Über größere Entfernungen kann hohe Sprachverständlichkeit dagegen störend sein, weil Gesprächsinhalte automatisch Aufmerksamkeit auf sich ziehen. Gute Büroakustik versucht deshalb, Sprache räumlich stärker zu begrenzen.

Was ist der Lombard-Effekt im Büro?

Steigt der Geräuschpegel in einem Raum, sprechen Menschen häufig automatisch lauter, um weiterhin gut verstanden zu werden. Dadurch kann wiederum der gesamte Geräuschpegel steigen. Eine sinnvolle akustische Planung reduziert solche gegenseitigen Verstärkungseffekte.

Wie unterscheiden sich Raumakustik und Schallschutz?

Raumakustik beschäftigt sich damit, wie sich Schall innerhalb eines Raums verhält – zum Beispiel mit Nachhall und Reflexionen. Schallschutz konzentriert sich stärker darauf, wie Schall zwischen Bereichen übertragen wird. Im Büro sind häufig beide Themen relevant.

Was bringt Sound Masking im Büro?

Sound Masking arbeitet mit einem gleichmäßigen Hintergrundsignal, das entfernte Gespräche weniger deutlich verständlich machen kann. Es kann eine ergänzende Maßnahme sein, ersetzt aber keine abgeschirmte Lösung für direkte Calls oder vertrauliche Gespräche.

Wann sind Telefonboxen für die Büroakustik sinnvoll?

Telefonboxen sind besonders hilfreich, wenn Sprache die wichtigste Störquelle ist. HUUS One und HUUS Call schaffen feste Rückzugsorte für Einzelcalls, Videokonferenzen und Fokuszeiten und nehmen diese Nutzung direkt aus dem offenen Arbeitsbereich heraus.

Welche Lösung eignet sich für mehrere Personen?

Für kleine Besprechungen und hybride Meetings sind größere Raum-in-Raum-Lösungen sinnvoller. HUUS Meet ist für bis zu vier Personen ausgelegt und schafft einen separaten Bereich für Zusammenarbeit innerhalb der bestehenden Bürofläche.

Können Akustikabsorber und Telefonboxen zusammen eingesetzt werden?

Ja. Beide Maßnahmen erfüllen unterschiedliche Aufgaben. Absorber können Nachhall und Reflexionen im Raum reduzieren. Telefon- und Meetingboxen verlagern dagegen besonders störende Gesprächssituationen aus dem Open Space. In Kombination können sie unterschiedliche akustische Probleme gezielt lösen.

Warum sind Belüftung und Beleuchtung auch für die Akustiklösung wichtig?

Eine akustisch gute Box bringt wenig, wenn sie im Alltag ungern genutzt wird. Deshalb gehören bei HUUS aktive Belüftung, Beleuchtung, Arbeitsfläche und Anschlüsse zum Gesamtkonzept. So bleibt der Rückzugsort auch bei längeren Calls oder Arbeitsphasen praktikabel.

Wie lässt sich die Akustik verbessern, ohne den offenen Bürocharakter aufzugeben?

Offene Flächen müssen nicht vollständig geschlossen werden. Durch gezielte Akustikmaßnahmen und Raum-in-Raum-Lösungen können Bereiche für Fokus und Kommunikation ergänzt werden, während die übrige Fläche offen und flexibel bleibt.

Woran erkenne ich, welche Akustikmaßnahme mein Büro braucht?

Zuerst sollte geklärt werden, welches Problem dominiert. Viel Hall spricht für Maßnahmen an reflektierenden Flächen. Hohe Sprachverständlichkeit über größere Distanzen kann eine andere Planung oder ergänzendes Sound Masking sinnvoll machen. Wenn Gespräche selbst die Hauptstörquelle sind, helfen separate Telefon- und Meetingboxen besonders gezielt.