What you Get from Serviced Offices
Serviced offices, and even semi-serviced offices, have grown in popularity during the last decade, with more businesses looking for office space to rent after realizing that serviced offices are the best space places for businesses to be established.
What are Serviced Offices?
Serviced offices are essentially offices which can be rented for short periods of time, with the main benefit being the flexibility of their license agreements. Rent agreements can last anywhere from as short as 1 month or to a full year. Under the agreement, you will pay a regular monthly license free, which covers furnishing, rent, power rates, services charges and other services such as facilities and more.
Serviced offices are usually located in business centres, which may be as small as 1 to 2 building levels, or as large as an entire multi-storey building. The latter is very common in highly industrialized cities, such as London, Brussels and New York.
Benefits of Serviced Offices
A serviced office space yields quite a number of appealing benefits. As a business owner or manager, you may want to locate an office space without dealing with too much hassle and money spent.
With service offices, you get:
* Low cost, great return in terms of a highly usable and no-frills office space
* A simple and flexible rent agreement that’s clear and doesn’t necessitate legal work
* Absence of long-term agreements
* Single monthly payment that covers the essentials in your office space, such as rent, rates and services
* A fully furnished space available upon occupancy
* An office that’s connected to your telecom and Internet provider
* Fully serviced reception areas where receptionists can work and visitors can wait in
Facilities
Another major benefit of serviced offices is the availability of office facilities, which you get access to as part of your tenant agreement.
Meeting rooms – a necessary facility in any office, many serviced offices will have fully furnished meeting rooms, complete with tools such as projectors, LCD screens and more. Some offices with even have facilities to virtual offices.
Reception areas – as mentioned earlier, serviced offices can also include reception areas where guests are properly received and accommodated. These areas can also be staffed with a receptionist to handle the task for you.
The availability of these facilities however, will depend on your agreement with the owner or manager of the business centre you’re dealing with. Likewise, you can also negotiate to have a furnished, or unfurnished office space.
