What are virtual offices?
A History
The virtual office idea is purely a result of improvements in information technology, and came to the fore during the 1980's. Blending the need for a professional branding of a company and the fact that the organisation does not need to physically occupy a building.
Today this concept has evolved into an accepted and trusted way for organisations to have multiple addresses, telephone numbers and IT facilities anywhere in the world, without having to actually be physically in any of these locations. Whilst at the same time providing the organisation the ability to hold meetings in these locations should they wish to entertain clients etc.
What is a virtual office
A virtual office service at a serviced office centre can provide differing levels of service, however in general they include Mail Handling, telephone answering and forwarding and IT infrastructure.
So you could be working from home whilst all your company literature and telephone contacts etc are being managed in a professional way by dedicated staff, providing a professional branded feeling to your business or making it sound a lot bigger than it actually is.
Taking this to a different level a large organisation maybe thinking about testing the water by opening up a further office somewhere else in the UK or in the rest of the world, a virtual office is an ideal way of establishing a presence in a new location at a minimal cost, until physical occupation of a property in that location becomes viable.