Work areas have more than one dimension. Perhaps there are windows in one of the many directions this photo is not showing?

If you see the picture in the slide show, you'll see that pods provide everyone with a private office, with a huge sliding glass door, and plentiful storage options.

The drones at Facebook would feel like they died and went to heaven.

That does not seem like a nice workspace at all. I had seen that but thought it's a one-on-one meeting room or something. But it seems like a "pod" is supposed to work for everything (meetings, individual work, socializing?).

This looks like a solitary confinement cell in jail. Just need to change the colors.

Looks like servant quarters from Downtown Abbey.