What are serviced offices?
A History
In the UK, the concept of working together and sharing premises, staff and other overheads was first used by Barristers. They normally band together into chambers to share clerks (administrators) and operating expenses.
This led inevitably to the concept becoming popular with travelling salesmen in the US, who required short term office and meeting room space in various locations, thus growing the concept of a serviced office from the early 1980's.
Present day
Today the serviced office concept has become an integral part of the UK and world wide office market and is ideal for start up businesses, businesses which require flexible lease terms and those that require smaller satellite offices in different locations, overflow space, office space for stand alone projects and the latest use being for those organisations which require disaster recovery facilities.
What is a serviced office ?
With a serviced office you can have a fully equipped office, which is ready to use immediately and can be moved into straight away. Serviced offices provide a range of facilities which can include furniture, telecoms, IT infrastructure, meeting rooms, answering services, administration services and more.
All these services including your office space rent, business rates and utilities are packaged into one convenient monthly payment. With no move in or move out costs which are associated with the more conventional lease options. Making a serviced office solution a competitive option in the market place.
Serviced offices provide the most flexible office solution in the market, office space can be rented which can accommodate just one person up to offices designed to accommodate over 100 people. This office space can be rented sometimes for just hours, weeks, months or years, unlike the conventional office leasing route where most rental terms are measured in years.