Coworking spaces have grown at an astounding rate of 200% over the past five years, with the number of coworking members estimated to rise to over 5 million by 2022 thanks to the huge increase in jobs offering remote working. Freelancers, contractors and younger companies are choosing coworking spaces over home offices and coffee shops for a range of reasons, …
It’s fitting that we chose the Manchester tent as our final go-to destination on day three of our epic maiden MIPIM outing. Manchester by the sea, transported, surely not coincidentally, to a location offering a clear uninterrupted vista of the Côte d’Azur to any architect, developer, Russian oligarch, musician or just a plain and simple dreamer who dared to walk …
Business centres, Flexible workspace, Coworking space…the way that people work continues to diversify, so the style of workspace changes too, giving the end customer ultimate choice. In 2018, 10.7m sq. ft. of workspace in London was managed by flexible workspace operators (source: Cushman & Wakefield), a figure which can only continue to grow. Wherever they work, organisations need Wi-Fi and …
Wi-Fi and superfast fibre internet connectivity is now seen as a utility by the majority of potential incoming clients, the same as heating, lighting and running water but with two very important differences. Firstly, the requirement for bandwidth will continue to grow and grow. The average superfast fibre connection size that we provide to clients’ sites has grown from 10MB …
We’re continuing the big #GCUCdebate with our presentation to the GCUC UK audience. Alongside showcasing what we do and the great people we work with, we also took a moment to get the thoughts from the crowd on what felt was more important to their coworking space – Water or Wi-Fi? Take a look at the video of the presentation …
We were asked by the Business Centre Association to give our views on IT automation and flexible workspace. To some extent it’s already happening with areas like CRM, online reservations and inventory management but how far would it go? We decided to put our thoughts into a couple of articles that take in Uber, the Beatles and Volvos. The first article is …
The world of IT loves an acronym. Newcomers to the world are often greeting with a blizzard of these acronyms, almost like it’s a secret language that you need to master quickly to be accepted. For outsiders these terms can cause confusion. Quite often the techie people will drop them into a conversation with the non-techie people which puts the non-techie person …
Do you know what a prepper is? Preppers are people who are actively preparing for emergencies, and when I say emergency, I mean these guys are psyching themselves up for the big one. Armageddon. World War III. Alien invasion. The zombie apocalypse. Preppers are the extreme, sure, but when the end is nigh do you know what they’ll be saying when they’re …
If we were to rate the reasons that companies move into flexible space then the top three would probably look something like: Joint 1st – Location and cost 2nd – Internet connectivity 3rd – Wireless access Wireless access has rapidly become a business essential. Think about it, the office tools we all use on a daily basis to work (laptops, smartphone, tablets) all …
The cloud can often be seen as a mysterious entity that few people fully understand. We’re all connected to it via a range of devices but do you really know what it does? We decided to put this article together to give a clearer explanation of what the mysterious ‘cloud’ really is….. The cloud The ‘cloud’ basically refers to a …