We all do our best throughout our lives to attract the attention of others. Whether through a new dress, a new car or a new hairstyle, we use numerous means to try and make ourselves attractive to potential partners. It’s the same throughout the animal kingdom, but where do serviced offices fit into all this?
They might not have a Cupid bow or a Cilla Black arranging Blind Dates for them, but for the employer–employee relationship they can work wonders.
Buildings can play an important part in producing long-term, satisfying working relationships. Best of all, this type of relationship won’t involve gossip at the water cooler, steamy liaisons in the stationery cupboard, or messy break-ups and tear-stained applications for redeployment.
Matt Oakley believes businesses ‘coming out of the credit crunch and the recession’ are increasingly using ‘the office as a tool to attract and retain the best staff’, offering amenities and facilities to attract high-calibre employees and boost retention rates.
Flexibility, another key benefit of serviced offices, is highlighted by the chairman of the British Council for Offices (BCO), who states ‘more flexible and multi-locational workers aren’t tied to a desk five days a week, but they still [may] come into the office for face-to-face contact’. A best-of-both-worlds scenario, and one that seems to be working very well for the up-and-coming SMEs of the entrepreneurial fraternity.
The comment comes after BCO research revealed a need for the office sector ‘to keep pace with changing occupier needs and the continued technological advancements that are shaping the way we do business’.
Changing occupier needs, along with building and facilities management, fully furnished offices, secretarial services, high-quality technology and refreshment facilities are, of course, typical features of serviced offices. It’s a sign of the times in which we’re working that the age when we all invested in our fixed assets and crossed our fingers that we’d make enough profit to keep hold of them is now thankfully at an end.
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