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Snapping up your first office can feel a lot like buying your first house: it's exciting, but also fraught with perils if you don't tread sufficiently carefully. Even if you have a vague idea of what your office needs, further must-haves could only become clear once you've actually moved in. Oop....To avoid getting caught out in this way, you need a checklist - but it's a long list. Much of it c...
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Holomeeting - The lowdown on the startup that is helping to create the office of the future and using mixed reality to enable its users to collaborate, communicate and create like never before... Whilst more and more of us are working remotely, we generally all still need to collaborate and work with others. Therefore there is an ever growing need to find innovative ways to help us do just t...
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Whether you have a home office or a work office, it is crucial that you keep this area tidy.  Not only for ease of use but for impressionable reasons.  If you have customers that need to go in this area then if it looks a mess they may get a really bad view of your company.   It sounds really easy to try and achieve a tidy office but if you are extremely busy and working hard &...
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As business in Northern Ireland continues to evolve, our office and work environment evolves with it. Clare Kelly, Director of leading serviced offices and coworking spaces provider, Glandore explains how co-working spaces are helping to change the way business is done in NI.  “Northern Irish companies are increasingly looking for more adaptable workplaces that allow room for growth wi...
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Workspace accelerator group Huckletree has launched a new membership offering for working parents, in its new space in West London. Huckletree West in White City provides both shared workspaces and private studios to digital lifestyle businesses and now offers a Kids’ Studio where parents can work while their pre-school children play. For just £175 a month working parents (...
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Content written by Steve Bern of Southcourt Property Services Ltd. Cheers Steve!"Getting your start up off the ground takes courage, commitment and guts. You’ve already got loads to think about in your start-up activities from creative to finance to accounts to marketing.  The kids are home early, the dog’s barking and the neighbour’s having an extension done and you can&rsq...
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It’s going to happen sometime: you will need to downsize, upsize, change location, or perhaps, as happened to us recently, find yourself suddenly office-less. Certainly you could work from home, or Dave’s mum’s garage, but it’s not ideal. While plenty of people make home offices work, if you’re in a team you most probably need an office office, unless remote working a...
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If you’ve ever had to find a new office or workspace, you’ll know only too well how challenging and time consuming a task it can be.  Whilst finding an empty space might be easy enough, it can be a tad more difficult to find a space which fully meets all your requirements. Now however, thanks to our latest Startup of the Week that need no longer be the case. SpareOffice is a ne...
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Starting a business can be difficult, but once you’ve settled on a speciality, things can become a lot more focused. You’ve finally decided what you want to do so the trick is knowing where exactly to begin. If, for example you’re interested in graphic design and want to start your own business, chances are that you’ve been doing the odd job here and there along with some f...
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So you have decided what business you would like to start; next on the agenda is creating a good working environment, AKA the home office. Let’s assume that you aren’t going to move directly into a dedicated office (unless of course you are, in which case, great!) but the vast majority of people starting new businesses have more humble beginnings than that. There are probably a few op...
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