Nobody wants to be an April Fool, especially not in business. From making an IT blunder during an important presentation to getting the director’s name wrong at a company you’re trying to go into a partnership with, being left red-faced and cringing with embarrassment is an inherent part of the world of business.
Topics: Meetings, offices, management
The phone’s ringing, the dog wants to go for a walk - he’s just jumped up onto the kitchen counter and knocked your paperwork on the floor. You’ve got a meeting in the lounge in half an hour and the neighbour’s just popped in for a chat having seen your car in the drive. To top it all, the washing machine’s just started leaking. Sound familiar?
Surely there’s a better way to run a business!
Topics: offices, Co-working and Flexible Working, business
With countless amenities on your doorstep, convenient transportation and a buoyant hustle and bustle that gets you ‘in the mood’ for work, the benefits of city centre working have long been established and exploited. But did you know more and more firms and working professionals are now seeking office space on the outskirts of a city?
According to a report in Property Wire, office take up across the biggest six regional office markets in the UK, including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bristol, increased by at least 30% in 2014.
As demand for office markets outside London looks set to continue, where is more beneficial for modern firms and professional workers to conduct their working day – is it better to have an office in the city centre or the outskirts?
Long gone are the days when one serviced office looked almost identical to the next, with clusters of workstations nestled together defining one team from another and doing little to nurture cross-department collaboration.
Thanks to phenomenal changes and advances in technology and communications, we can work from almost anywhere. From freelancers to start-ups, we’re all lapping up the modern privilege of flexible working arrangements, whipping our laptops out at every given moment.
There becomes a point however when home office and coffee shop set-ups become limiting, particularly if you have bigger aspirations for your business.
If you’re thinking big in 2015 and those niggling concerns that your home office – no matter how convenient and cosy – just couldn’t cater for an expanding team or important client meetings, hiring out office space could be just the ticket to move your business into a higher gear. But what is the best location for office space?
Rolling out of bed at 8.50am. Blearily making yourself a coffee and starting work at 9.00am still in your pyjamas! Sounds heavenly doesn’t it? But is the lure of homeworking as productive, convenient and appealing as it seems? Let us answer the question: Do I need office Space?
Topics: self-employed, Meetings, offices, Co-working and Flexible Working, Start-Up, SME, business
It goes without saying really, where you work has a significant impact on how you work. This blog promises to advise you on how to best set your Serviced Office up to get the most out of your team.
Topics: self-employed, offices, SME, business
“Sign here on the dotted line please Sir?” To which the company director fervently signs, ecstatic he has finally got proper business premises and his company really is going places!
Topics: self-employed, offices, SME, business
Remember, remember the fifth of November gunpowder treason and plot.
Bonfire Night is almost upon us and there is a smouldering glow of excitement gathering in the air.