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Regus offers businesses the best of both worlds

When you look for a new office, you want it to be available quickly. You don’t want to waste valuable time waiting for places to be fit out, furniture to be delivered, or telephone and broadband to be installed. It eats up time and resources, and stops your company from getting on with business.

With the global workplace provider Regus office space, you avoid all that. You simply sign a one-page contract, and you’re ready to go. The IT and telephony is up-and-running, your desks are in place, and a professional receptionist is ready to greet visitors.

Regus offers private, shared and campus-style offices at 2,000 locations in 104 countries and regions. They’re available on short or extended terms, so customers only need use them (and pay for them) for as long as they want. Some companies have them as their long-term base; others use them as a temporary home while they explore a market or work on a short-term project.

Traditional office leases tend to lock businesses into arrangements that may not suit them in six months’ time. So they end up paying for space that sits unused, or they don’t have enough room to expand. In contrast, Regus is all about flexibility. If customers want to grow, downsize or move offices, they can do that easily.

It’s a better and more agile way to work, perfectly suited to the current economic climate. With less money spent on unsuitable traditional workspace, there’s more money to spend on your business.

There’s also more time to spend on your business. Regus office space comes with dedicated support teams, so many of the non-core aspects of running a business are lifted from customers’ shoulders. Regus provides reception and security; Regus makes sure the wifi and photocopiers are working; Regus manages the cleaning and maintenance; and much else besides.

With all those burdens removed, small (and large) businesses can get on with what they do best. From a one-man band to vast multinationals, Regus helps customers be more productive. Regus often ends up helping them find new business too: Centers of Regus are great hubs for networking and connecting with other companies — very useful if you’re entering a new market.

Another Regus boost to business — to SMEs, in particular — is access to resources. If you’re just starting up in business or entering a new market, you’re hardly going to invest in your own state-of-the-art video-conferencing studio, or a series of different meeting rooms just in case you ever need them. But at Regus offices, all these facilities are there in the building. You pay for them as you use them; if you don’t need them, you don’t pay. You have the resources of a multinational at your fingertips, but within the budget of a start-up. Asked about the difficulties of entering new markets, 60 percent of businesses globally said property and paperwork were the major challenges. Using Regus’ office space minimizes those challenges both at home and abroad, leaving you free to work your way.




 

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