Rooms and locks

Understand the office's rooms and doors, lock your room for privacy and knock to ask to come in.

The office is split into rooms with walls and doors, just like a real office. Some rooms can be locked for privacy. This guide explains who can lock a room, what happens to the people inside and how to ask to come in.

Rooms and doors

Doors open on their own when someone comes close and close again once everyone has walked away.
Walls and closed doors block sound: people on the other side do not hear the conversation. While someone stands in the doorway, the door stays open and sound gets through.
A locked room fully isolates voice and video from people outside.

Who can lock a room

The kind of room depends on how many workstations are inside it:

Room	Who locks and unlocks	Who gets in while locked
Dedicated (one workstation)	Only the workstation owner	Only the workstation owner
Shared (two or more workstations)	People with access to the room	People with access and your company's administrators
No workstations	Cannot be locked	Everyone

In a shared room, the owners of its workstations have access, plus anyone the administrators add to the room's access list.

Lock and unlock

Go into the room you want to lock.
In the bottom bar, click the open padlock (Lock the room).
To open it, click the closed padlock (Room locked · click to unlock).

The button only shows up while you are inside a room you can lock. When you lock or unlock, people nearby hear the sound of the lock.

What happens while a room is locked

Everyone sees a padlock on the room's doors.
For people without access, the door does not open and the room is covered by a dark veil: you cannot see who is inside.
People who were already inside when the door was locked can stay and leave whenever they want. Once out, they only get back in if they have access or someone lets them in.
Meeting areas inside a locked room are also closed to people without access.

Knock on the door

Need to talk to someone in a locked room?

Walk to the door (or use Go to on the person inside).
The Locked door notice shows up. Click Knock on the door.
Wait: the people inside the room get a Knocking on the door notice with your name.

The people inside choose Let in or Not now. The first answer counts for everyone. If they let you in:

the door opens for you once, within the next 10 minutes;
after you leave the room, you need to knock again to come back.

If you have no way out

If the only way out of where you are goes through a room locked for you, the No way out notice shows up. You can knock on the door or click Go to the entrance to go back to the office entrance.