Phone booths, once ubiquitous, pretty much got killed off by the mobile phone.
They’re making a comeback, though, in a number of offices with open floor plans, including Skuid, Inc., a software firm housed in the Liberty Tower in downtown Chattanooga.
Skuid has a more than a dozen Finnish-made Framery O single-user phone booths scattered around the three floors that it leases in the office tower at Chestnut and 6th Streets.
“They’re good for a phone call or some quiet space,” Skuid spokeswoman Ellie Hildebrand says. “You also don’t have to book a conference room, which can be a hard thing to come by.”
The Framery O phone booth includes “all the equipment you need to make things easy – a table top, air ventilation system, electric socket and LED lighting,” says the Finnish company – itself a startup.