Armed with their laptops, dongles, BlackBerrys, and mobile phones; the flexible working brigade can truly set up their workstation anywhere they choose. Though some people thrive in non-traditional office settings, many telecommuters find that working flexibly is not always as easy as they imagined. The serenity of working from home can often be rudely interrupted by a myriad of different scenarios. Domestic chores, children, personal business, and just plain lack of motivation can make it difficult to accomplish the tasks set out at the beginning of the day. For small businesses and start-ups, a secret weapon to help focus efforts of employees could rest in the idea of hot-desking.
A hot-desk is a perfect way to create a work atmosphere for a fraction of the cost of a traditional office and also is the best way to make the most of your technology spend as a small or start-up business. By investing in mobile working equipment and saving on overheads associated with a traditional bricks and mortar office, small businesses can put more money towards generating business and forging forward while they ensure they have a functional and professional workspace at their fingertips.
When your business is made up of just a few people, it makes little sense to take out a lease on office space that will largely go unused and will rack up massive amounts of overhead, thereby stifling resources that could be put towards growth.
Because of technology, the internet and modern day ease of travel, business truly is global. It may not always be feasible to have traditional offices in a variety of geographical locations. Hot-desks can provide budget conscious businesses with the ability to have a presence in different cities a few days a week without the cost of holding down a full time space of their very own in each centre; thus creating the impression of a more global and larger scale enterprise.
Hot-desk space in a Virtual Office setting offers the latest in telephony and IT infrastructure. An added bonus of hot-desking is that you have access to all of the amenities of an office, like a kitchen, reception area, meeting rooms and all the furniture for your space plus the support needed to make the most of the technology you employ.
About the Virtual Office Group: The Virtual Office was founded out of a recession in 1990 as a small family business by Richard Nissen based on business models he had seen while working in New York. The Virtual Office is the original supplier of Virtual Office services in London. As such, we are experts in providing telephone reception support, business address services, meeting room and serviced office facilities which are available in a wide variety of packages and can be tailored to suit individual needs. To find out exactly how the Virtual Office can help you, please visit our website: www.virtualofficegroup.com ; or our Blog at http://virtualofficegroup.blogspot.com/ or follow us on Twitter - aVirtualOffice Contact us on 0207 917 9916 or by email at lindsay.beaton@virtualofficegroup.com
