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Reuben Zuidhof’s story begins with two overused phone booths. It ends with a question facing offices, hospitals, libraries, and universities alike: how do you design workspaces for a future that refuses to sit still?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuben’s Office Had Growing Pains<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By the summer of 2017, Reuben Zuidhof’s office had become a case study in the gap between how workplaces are designed and how people actually behave. The marketing agency he co-owned in Vancouver occupied a perfectly respectable open-plan office. There was a meeting room. There were two drywall phone booths. There was plenty of collaboration. There was also a growing shortage of places to think. The phone booths were permanently occupied. Conversations leaked through the suspended ceiling above the meeting room. Employees drifted around the office searching for somewhere to concentrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My introverts were not happy with me,” he recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The complaint sounds small. It wasn’t. Reuben\u2019s agency had grown to around twenty people, enough for every weakness in the office to become visible. A private call suddenly required planning. A focused hour became difficult to find. Quiet had become a resource people competed for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The obvious answer was construction. Most companies eventually arrive there. Add another room. Build another booth. Expand the footprint. Yet, Reuben\u2019s company was operating in a leased office, and permanent construction raised an annoying question: how long until we need to do it again? The meeting room and phone booths were once the answer. A few years later, they were already struggling to keep up with the way people actually worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offices are often planned around assumptions that need to survive five, seven, or ten years. Businesses rarely stand still for that long. Teams grow, technology changes, and priorities shift. The lifespan of a fit-out increasingly exceeds the lifespan of the behaviors it was designed to support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Reuben wasn’t thinking about workplace theory at the time. He was simply watching what his employees were doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The phone booths were always in use.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team adapted. They improvised. They searched for corners, empty rooms, and moments of quiet. The office looked functional on a floor plan. The behavior inside it suggested something else.t would give them private space today without creating a problem for tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Most Popular Room Wasn\u2019t a Room<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The solution landed in Reuben’s office like the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>: without explanation, perfectly still, and reorganizing everything around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a three-person pod, borrowed for a 30-day trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, it looked like office furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within days, employees were changing their routines around the pod. Within weeks, they were arriving early to claim time inside it. “I had fallen in love with it. My team had fallen in love with it. That thing was in use 15 hours a day,” Reuben recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the thirty-day trial, he noticed that the borrowed three-person pod never settled into an identity. For one hour, it was a phone room. Next, it became a project room. Then, a brainstorming space. Then, a private meeting room. Then it became a place where someone could disappear into. “Those 30 days were the light bulb moment,” he says. “You see one person in there having a phone call. Then you see two people battling something out, brainstorming.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most sought-after space in the office occupied a few square meters and, for most of the day, had a queue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuben Couldn\u2019t Let It Go<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The trial ended, and Reuben did what any satisfied customer would do. He asked to buy the pod. The response changed the trajectory of his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pod had changed the office. The team loved it. The invoice arrived: CAD $29,900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuben asked about the demonstration model, a unit that had traveled between office trials for years. Surely there would be meaningful savings. The revised invoice arrived: CAD $28,900.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The supplier wanted the trial unit returned immediately. A replacement unit carried a lead time of twenty weeks. Urgency felt entirely one-sided. And, what was with the CAD $1,000 discount on a three-year-old display sample?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuben couldn’t make the maths work. The most heavily used space in his office was also the hardest to buy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Scott, we’re entrepreneurs,” he remembers saying to his business partner. “This is a big opportunity, and we’re not the only ones in this situation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuben went down what he describes as “this whole pathway”, researching manufacturers in China, India, and Eastern Europe and eventually finding a supplier he believed could deliver the same solution at a dramatically lower cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He even prepared to import three booths himself. “I’m Dutch. I love a deal,” he laughs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scot and Reuben’s wife intervened: “We were a small business.” The order never happened. “So we put it on pause,” he tells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Garage Economy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Three years later, the pandemic put fuel on the fire. While we were attempting to conduct professional lives from kitchens, garages, and spare bedrooms, Reuben’s marketing agency launched a campaign asking customers what they needed from this new reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research later documented the privacy issues, interruptions, and environmental distractions as the defining cons of remote work. We were negotiating with children, dogs, partners, and neighbors for the right to finish a sentence uninterrupted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a month, one answer kept returning to Reuben: “People need a controlled environment.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We thought about Zoom kits,” Reuben says. Cameras, backdrops, and packages that could be shipped directly to people’s homes. “But that’s when the booths came back.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Entrepreneurs Become an R&D Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reuben and Scot’s first sample booths arrived during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A picture of this moment still exists somewhere in Bureau’s archives: Reuben and Scot standing in a showroom, surrounded by loose panels, tools, and packaging, as they assemble their first booths over a weekend. Two marketing-agency owners who had somehow talked themselves into becoming acoustic-booth installers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Two<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As the installation progressed, they compiled notes. The seals could be improved. So could the handles. The electrical components looked dated. The lighting felt wrong. The installation process was clunky. By the end of the exercise, their list had grown to around two hundred suggested improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We became R&D,” Reuben recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six months later, the manufacturer returned with a revised version. Then another. Many of the changes had made it in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Three<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Australians<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The pod manufacturer kept coming back with improvements. Good improvements. Sometimes, surprisingly good improvements. Can there be too good an improvement? Reuben and Scot would identify a problem, send feedback, and later discover that several other issues had somehow been solved as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a while, it felt like they had found the world’s most attentive supplier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Years later, they discovered they were living inside a plot twist worthy of The Parent Trap<\/em>. On the other side of the world, Adam and Tyson were conducting almost exactly the same exercise. Different continents. Same manufacturer. Same category. Same obsession with improving every detail. Neither side knew the other existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Without knowing it, we were helping each other out big time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unknown to either side, every prototype had become a form of correspondence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time Adam and Tyson met Reuben and Scot, the introductions felt almost procedural. They had been sharing ideas in a workshop for years. There was only one logical next move: joining forces. Bureau was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Future of Work? Who Knows?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of Reuben’s favorite examples of booth use involves a university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, the careers center may need five booths. Next year, the psychology department may need three of them. A different faculty may need them after that. Traditional construction struggles with this reality because traditional construction assumes a degree of certainty about the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future has become increasingly reluctant to cooperate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research analyzing 41 billion location records found office attendance settling into highly concentrated midweek patterns, dramatically different from the habits that influenced office planning before the pandemic. Organizations continue to use space. The way they use it keeps changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuben’s office had the same problem. The meeting room was once the answer. The drywall booths were once the answer. Then came the next questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuben Is Not the Corner-Office Guy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For years, Reuben made fun of executives hiding in corner offices. The corner office represented hierarchy and distance. Work was supposed to happen alongside the team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, he regularly spends four or five hours a day in a booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His desk still sits with everybody else. He still enjoys conversations. He still enjoys questions. Yet when deep work is required, he disappears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If I truly want nobody to bug me, you just come into a booth and put on your sound cancellation headphones. Ain’t nobody coming.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The irony would not be lost on the younger Reuben Zuidhof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The founder, who once watched employees hunt for quiet, now spends four or five hours a day inside a booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His introverts got there first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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