Room types
There are five room types in Roam on the Floor Map:
- Private Office. Each member’s home base. Every member of your Roam should have their own private office.
- Meeting Room. Video enabled room.
- Team Room. Audio only huddle space.
- Theater. For all-hands meetings, presentations, and large-scale events.
- Game Room. Take a break with multi-player games for team bonding.
Private Office
Your Private Office is your primary room—an audio-only space that serves as your home base. There’s no video or camera option, ensuring a private room where your camera will never be on. When you enter Roam or exit a meeting, you’ll automatically be placed in your Private Office. Each Private Office can accommodate up to 75 people, regardless of the number of visible seats on the Floor Map.
Private Offices have closed doors by default. Other members must knock to request entry, and you’ll have the option to let them in or let them know you’re busy.
You can set your Private Office to Do Not Disturb (DND) mode at any time. From the bottom toolbar, click “Knock Required” and then click “Do Not Disturb”. This setting mutes notifications and prevents others from knocking on your door—ideal for focused work or when you’re unavailable. Roam can automatically set DND when you’re on a Zoom meeting, Microsoft Teams meeting, Google Meet meeting, or recording a Magicast.
Offices include a Shelf, where you can showcase your favorite books, movies, awards, articles, and more—representing yourself both personally and professionally. Click Add Shelf for My Office in the bottom right corner of the Floor Map to set it up.
On the Roam Desktop App, you’ll be timed out when your computer goes to sleep or after 30 minutes of inactivity—whichever comes first. This applies to overall computer use, not just Roam activity; as long as you’re using your computer, Roam will remain active.
You won’t be timed out if you’re in a conversation with someone in any room. If you do get timed out, simply click anywhere on the inactive Roam window to return to your office.
Meeting Room
Meeting Rooms are dedicated video rooms where your video is on by default when you enter. Each Meeting Room can accommodate up to 75 people, regardless of the number of visible seats on the Floor Map.
Team Room
Team Rooms are audio-only spaces similar to offices but unassigned and set to Open by default. They’re ideal for breakout sessions, pair programming, lounges, and everything in between. Each Team Room can accommodate up to 75 people, regardless of the number of visible seats on the Floor Map.
While it’s possible to assign seats in a Team Room, we strongly discourage this. We recommend that each person have their own Private Office and use Team Rooms on an ad-hoc basis when needed for open discussions with other team members.
Theater
The Theater is a purpose-built space for all-hands meetings, presentations, and large-scale events. It can accommodate 3,000 people, and automatically scales to a stadium view with multiple audience sections when more than ~50 attendees are present. The Theater consists of four key areas—On Stage, Backstage, Audience, and Q&A Microphone.
Game Room
Increase employee engagement, build culture, and more quickly ramp up newly formed teams with Game Room. Choose from 18 multiplayer titles like Battle Karts and Doodle Up, and view a live leaderboard right on the map to see who’s winning. Each Game Room can accommodate up to 20 people, regardless of the number of visible seats on the Floor Map.
Note: Learn how to edit the floor map to add rooms.