FocusPod Solo™
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FocusPod Duo™
FocusPod Team™
FocusPod Meet™
FocusPod Max™Office Pod Hire Melbourne
Melbourne hire
Pod hire in Melbourne.
Events, activations and monthly rental. We deliver, install and pack down — you tell us the dates.
Acoustic office pods are available for hire across Melbourne for expos, conferences, activations, and monthly rental for projects and pop-ups. Every hire is all-inclusive — delivery, positioning, assembly, testing, pack-down and collection — quoted on the dates, model and venue rather than off a rate card.
Event hire
Expos, conferences, activationsA pod at an event solves the thing every organiser eventually hits: there is nowhere quiet. Media interviews happen in a corridor, sponsors take calls in the car park, and anyone who needs five minutes away from the noise has nowhere to go.
Event hire is one all-inclusive number. Delivery to the venue, positioning and assembly, testing, then pack-down and collection in your bump-out window. No separate freight line and no assembly charge on the day.
Interview and podcast booths
Acoustically treated and ventilated, so recorded audio is usable. Blackout or privacy wrapping where the interior needs to be unseen on camera.
Private meeting space on the floor
Somewhere to close a conversation without walking a prospect out of the hall. Frosted glass where it needs to be confidential.
Quiet rooms and parents rooms
Genuinely under-served at conferences. One booth covers calls, feeding, prayer, sensory breaks and anyone who needs the volume to stop.
Melbourne venues and access
What we handleMelbourne event hire runs through MCEC at South Wharf, the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Park, Caulfield and the Docklands conference floors, plus a steady stream of activations in Cremorne and Collingwood warehouse spaces.
Access splits two ways. The purpose-built venues are straightforward — proper docks, generous goods lifts, clear bump-in schedules. The older CBD hotel and Collins Street function spaces are the opposite, with small passenger lifts where the 2310 mm packed pallet length becomes the deciding measurement.
We also hold a showroom at Newport, so Melbourne hirers can see the models before booking rather than choosing from photographs.
Dock, lift and floor protection
Melbourne venues are generally more workable than Sydney, but the older CBD stock is not. We deal with venue operations directly on access windows, dock allocation, lift bookings and floor protection requirements.
Dates and a floor position
Bump-in window, bump-out time and roughly where it goes. Packed pallets are 1270 mm tall and up to 2650 mm long — the measurement venues ask for.
Monthly rental
Projects, pop-ups and try-before-you-buyMonthly rental runs up to about six months and suits three situations: a project team in temporary space, an office waiting on a fitout or a lease, and teams who want to know whether pods actually get used before committing capital to six of them. We do not do long-term hire — beyond six months, buying costs less and we will tell you so.
That last one is worth taking seriously. Pods do not fail because they perform badly. They fail because they go in the wrong place on the floor and nobody uses them. A month of rental answers that cheaply, and if you then buy, we credit the rental already paid against the purchase price.
What's available
Every model
Solo
Calls and deep focus. Fits where a desk would go.
- Exterior
- 1080 × 1000 × 2338 mm
- Interior
- 942 × 960 × 2146 mm
- Floor
- ~1.0 m²
- Acoustic
- Up to 30 dB · Class A
Solo Plus
One person with room to move. Dual monitors, long sessions.
- Exterior
- 1600 × 1375 × 2338 mm
- Interior
- 1462 × 1335 × 2146 mm
- Floor
- ~2.2 m²
- Acoustic
- Up to 30 dB · Class A
Duo
Two-person calls, pair work and one-to-ones.
- Exterior
- 1600 × 1375 × 2338 mm
- Interior
- 1462 × 1335 × 2146 mm
- Floor
- ~2.2 m²
- Acoustic
- Up to 30 dB · Class A
Team
Two people, long and narrow. Sits against a wall where a square pod cannot.
- Exterior
- 2300 × 966 × 2338 mm
- Interior
- 2162 × 926 × 2146 mm
- Floor
- ~2.2 m²
- Acoustic
- Up to 30 dB · Class A
Meet
A real meeting room. Client meetings and video calls.
- Exterior
- 2300 × 1785 × 2338 mm
- Interior
- 2162 × 1745 × 2146 mm
- Floor
- ~4.1 m²
- Acoustic
- Up to 30 dB · Class A
Max
Boardroom and workshops without building a boardroom.
- Exterior
- 2600 × 2605 × 2338 mm
- Interior
- 2462 × 2565 × 2146 mm
- Floor
- ~6.77 m²
- Acoustic
- Up to 30 dB · Class A
Melbourne customers
Named, with permission★★★★★
“I use the Solo Plus as a proper workstation for most of the day, not just for short calls. There is enough room for my laptop, monitor and notes, and it feels comfortable even during long stretches of focused work. It has made working in an open office much easier.”
Michael Tran
Apex Digital Solutions
★★★★★
“The narrow footprint was the main reason we selected the FocusPod Team. We had a long section of unused floor space but not enough width for a conventional meeting room. The pod fitted the area perfectly and gave us a proper team meeting space without changing the entire office layout.”
Adam Foster
UrbanForm Architects
Common questions
From Melbourne hirersHow much does it cost to hire an office pod in Melbourne?
Quoted per job rather than from a rate card, because dates, model, quantity, venue and term all affect it. Every quote is all-inclusive — delivery, installation, the pod and pack-down — with no separate freight charges.
Can you deliver to MCEC?
Yes. We deal with venue operations directly on dock booking, lift access, bump-in windows and floor protection. Give us the dates and we work to the venue's schedule.
Can I see a pod before hiring it in Melbourne?
Yes. Our Newport showroom has the range set up by appointment, which is worth doing if the pod is going somewhere visible at an event.
How far in advance should I book?
Four to six weeks is comfortable. Melbourne event dates cluster around conference season, and availability is usually the constraint rather than price.
Do you hire pods for warehouse activations?
Yes, and Cremorne and Collingwood conversions are common. Ground floor is straightforward; upper floors without a lift depend on the stairwell, so send photos early.
Do you do monthly rental in Melbourne?
Yes, for project teams, offices between fitouts, and anyone testing whether pods get used before buying. Rental can be credited against a purchase.
Buying instead? See office pods in Melbourne, the full range and prices, or how hire works generally.
Got a date and a venue in Melbourne?
Tell us the dates, the venue and roughly what the pod is for. We will confirm availability and send an all-inclusive number, usually the same day.