Why does the office layout need to be fixed at all? Introducing Space-Adjustable™ Furniture.

Date 09.02.2026 Author: Stuart Jones

Hot Off the Press: The Space-Adjustable™ Hot Desk Booth

We’re currently developing a new triangular Space-Adjustable™ hot desking booth — a hybrid between a desk and an open pod. Designed as a 1-person focused workstation, the geometry allows multiple units to tessellate into 2, 3 or 4-person clusters without losing privacy, accessibility or spatial efficiency. Each unit creates a defined acoustic micro-zone — open at the top, lightweight in footprint, but substantial in performance.

Crucially, the booth integrates our patent-pending Raise&Relocate technology, meaning the booths can be lifted and repositioned with ease — without dismantling, without contractors and without disrupting the wider workplace. Facilities teams can reconfigure layouts as needs evolve, extending lifecycle and reducing churn costs.

This is hot desking re-engineered around space rather than square tables — structured, adaptable and ready to move when your workplace does.

When we recently filed our patent application for our Raise&Relocate pod technology, we weren’t just thinking about pods that could be raised and relocated.

We had a bigger vision.

Because once you ask the question “why does this pod need to be fixed in place?”, it naturally leads to another:

Why stop at pods?

What about being able to raise and relocate desking?
Workbenches?
Printer stations?
Office storage?
Reception desks?

Why does the layout of an office need to be fixed at all?

Height-adjustable desks solved one problem — but not the whole one

Height-adjustable desks have been around for 30 years or so, and they are a great innovation. They’ve helped millions of people work more comfortably by adapting furniture to the individual.

But height-adjustable desks only solve one dimension of change.

They focus on people adjusting to furniture, not on spaces adjusting over time.

Yet workplaces are constantly evolving:

  • teams grow and shrink

  • departments move

  • layouts are reconfigured

  • ways of working change

And still, the furniture that defines those spaces is largely static.

We’ve already started challenging fixed layouts

At AgileAcoustics, this question of adaptability isn’t new.

Our Modulise modular screen system was designed around a simple idea: that acoustic zoning and visual separation shouldn’t be permanent. Screens should be easy to reconfigure, reposition or remove as needs change — without rebuilding walls or committing to fixed layouts.

Modulise allows spaces to flex between open, semi-enclosed and more acoustically controlled environments, using furniture rather than fit-out.

That same thinking has now led us to ask a bigger question.

What if office furniture was space-adjustable?

What if office furniture wasn’t just adjustable for posture — but adjustable for space?

What if architects, office designers and building managers could design workplaces using space-adjustable furniture?

Furniture that allows entire layouts to be reconfigured, repositioned and re-set over time — without dismantling furniture, without major disruption, and without permanent building works.

Using our Raise&Relocate patent-pending technology, we believe this is entirely achievable.

Cutting the cable: power that moves with the furniture

For space-adjustable furniture to truly work, power needs to be just as flexible as the furniture itself.

Fixed floor boxes, wall sockets and hard-wired connections all work against adaptable layouts. Every time furniture moves, power becomes a constraint — or a cost.

That’s why we’re exploring integrated battery pack power and charging as part of our space-adjustable furniture thinking.

By incorporating onboard battery power, space-adjustable desks and furniture can:

  • operate without fixed building connections

  • be raised, relocated and re-set without electrical works

  • provide power for laptops, task lighting and device charging

  • support cleaner, more flexible layouts

In simple terms, the furniture brings its power with it.

Combined with Raise&Relocate technology, battery-powered furniture opens up a new level of freedom for designers and facilities teams — especially in hot-desking, agile working and fast-changing environments.

A new category starts here

We see the emergence of a new office furniture category — one focused on layout adaptability, not just individual adjustment.

We’re calling it Space-Adjustable™ furniture.

And we’re starting where it makes the most sense:

  • space-adjustable desking

  • hot desks designed for change

  • layouts that can evolve as organisations do

Combined with modular systems like Modulise — and powered independently of the building — this approach allows furniture, zoning and power to adapt together over time.

This is just the beginning.

So watch this space…
it may adjust. 😉

Stuart Jones, Founder AgileAcoustics