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Hate the open office? Think it's too loud? Enter the 'phone booth'

As Generation Z starts entering the workforce, office interior designers are creating flexible workspaces that offer the privacy young workers - those born between 1997 and 2012 - demand.

Design experts say privacy is important to this young generation of workers in order to escape the noisiness that has enveloped the open office, so they are drawing inspiration from a surprising place: the phone booth, an obsolete space most members of Gen Z have probably never entered.

Tall and narrow "phone booths" are making their way

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