The evidence strongly favours multiple small acoustic pods over large conference rooms for hybrid office investment. Large conference rooms are sized for meetings that represent a minority of actual meeting frequency (40% of meetings involve 4–6 people, not 8–12). They require permits, construction time, and reinstatement liability. They are unavailable when occupied — creating booking bottlenecks that reduce their effective utility. HIGHKA Model L pods (2–4 persons) provide equivalent functional space to a small meeting room at a fraction of the construction cost, in 2–4 hours, with full portability and zero reinstatement liability — and they multiply the available enclosed meeting capacity by enabling simultaneous use of multiple pods from the same floor area as one large room.