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Office space in Tysons
Posted by:
mythreedogs
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Date: July 29, 2013 10:44AM
Looking to move from home office into formal office - anyone have any feedback on intelligent office, Regus or any other type of service like them?
Re: Office space in Tysons
Posted by:
Globetrotter
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Date: July 29, 2013 12:02PM
Fairly expensive and not sure what it buys you really beyond having a receptionist.
If you have to meet with people, then they still know that you're pretending. If you have to work with a group of people face-to-face on a daily basis, I can't imagine that you couldn't find space somewhere for about the same money or less.
We used one for a while when I worked for a large consulting company to provide working and meeting space in various locations where we didn't have offices and clients didn't have room for people on site. +90% of the time we really didn't NEED to be there and usually met with people elsewhere anyway. But we had fat budgets, got a big discount because they were a client and they got to use our name as clients, and it still wasn't used that much so the deal didn't last long. Most of the space was conveniently located, well equipped and maintained, and people were friendly and capable enough. Beyond that, it was a place with a desk and Internet access when that wasn't ubiquitous.
Most of the companies in that business aren't doing real well which I think reflects the above.
What's your reason for needing office space?
If you have to meet with people, then they still know that you're pretending. If you have to work with a group of people face-to-face on a daily basis, I can't imagine that you couldn't find space somewhere for about the same money or less.
We used one for a while when I worked for a large consulting company to provide working and meeting space in various locations where we didn't have offices and clients didn't have room for people on site. +90% of the time we really didn't NEED to be there and usually met with people elsewhere anyway. But we had fat budgets, got a big discount because they were a client and they got to use our name as clients, and it still wasn't used that much so the deal didn't last long. Most of the space was conveniently located, well equipped and maintained, and people were friendly and capable enough. Beyond that, it was a place with a desk and Internet access when that wasn't ubiquitous.
Most of the companies in that business aren't doing real well which I think reflects the above.
What's your reason for needing office space?