business centre

With a total of 23 workspaces referenced since its creation in 1985, Multiburo has clearly opted for "reasoned growth". The roadmap for this French SME could now take on a completely different pace when it joins the fold of La Poste Immobilier, which announced on 19 July that it was buying...

What needs do you intend to meet with your new Connect'Team offering? Stéphanie Auxenfans - This is one of the consequences of the major upheavals in working patterns that we have been experiencing since the pandemic, which have been driven mainly by teleworking, the practice of which has generally continued. We have just carried out a customer survey in the spring, according to which...

Office life, but so much more: a place to work in the heart of Paris's largest sports and entertainment venue, the Accor Arena. It's a unique setting, and it's the one that Spaces has chosen to open a coworking space like no other this March, which will give you the chance to...

With its strong brands such as Regus, Spaces, HQ and Signature, IWG is still by far the world leader in flexible working solutions, with 3,308 locations worldwide in over 1,100 cities and 120 countries. This compares with, for example, 764 addresses developed by the other big name in the sector,...

Is the office as a place of work still as attractive today? Christophe Burckart - Yes, and I'm even surprised by its resilience, because it's a place where people socialise. Even if company employees were not very present in our spaces, their occupancy rate has never fallen below 70 % since March...

It's no surprise, but at least it confirms a fundamental trend: flexible working is favoured by a large majority of French professionals. IWG, the world leader in flexible working spaces with its Regus and Spaces brands, unveiled a study carried out last September among a sample of 1,000 people...

After setting course for the north of France with an opening in Villeneuve d'Ascq in April and others to come in Marc en Baroeul and Lille, Newton Offices is also continuing its expansion in the south of France. Already established in Montpellier, Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, this player in the flexible office property market is now preparing to...

Regus has unveiled its plans for Togo, announcing on 12 February that it will open its first office in Lomé. Expected to open in the second quarter, the Regus Avenue de la Chance business centre will be located on the eponymous thoroughfare in the new "GTA Lomé II" administrative district to the north of the Togolese capital. The new Regus address...

How has your Group's business evolved over the last few months? Christophe Burckart - There have been three phases. During the first period of confinement, we obviously experienced a drop in the number of visitors to our centres, as well as in our marketing activities. At the same time, we supported many of our customers by putting in place...

Coworking and business centre operators, like all sectors, are being affected by the economic crisis, and are putting the spotlight on their flexible offerings that are just as suited to this period of crisis as they are to new nomadic working habits. Bird Office advocates teleworking in coworking mode In response to changing demand, Bird Office is rethinking its positioning by...

It's anything but a passing fad. Coworking is the new way of looking at office property. Almost every week brings a batch of new spaces with their carefully thought-out designs in the heart of the business districts of major cities - WeWork, Spaces, Wojo and Morning Coworking, to name but a few.

A need for places where people are part of a community How do you encourage a new way of life through your workspaces? Audrey Barbier-Litvak - Our mission at WeWork is to create a world where people work to live their lives, not just to earn them. We...

What are the highlights of your new establishment, the Deskopolitan Paris Voltaire, which will open next spring? Paul Chevrillon - We're going to be offering a much wider range of services than at our first site, in the 10th arrondissement. This 1,400 m² facility was inaugurated just over two years ago...

Africa is a continent of possibilities for the business tourism industry. In the same way as the hotel and air transport industries, coworking and, more broadly, shared workspaces are booming. As the sector leader with 3,300 sites around the world, Regus is logically taking part in this boom, and...

"A bubble of calm at the end of the platform". This is how Stéphanie Auxenfans, Managing Director of Multiburo, describes the business centre due to open in early November at Saint-Lazare station in Paris. Spanning 2,200 sq. m. and two floors along the Cour du Havre and Rue d'Amsterdam, this new...

Spaces is continuing to expand in the Paris region with the announcement of a seventh coworking space in the heart of the capital. Following on from Spaces Opéra Garnier, Bonne nouvelle, Réaumur and Boulogne Billancourt, all of which have already opened, and the one due to open near Saint Lazare station in July, this specialist in coworking will be setting up in the Halles district...

Already present in terminals 2 and 5 at Heathrow airport, Regus took up residence in terminal 3 on 6 February. Located just ahead of the security checkpoints, this new Regus Express business centre covers more than 450 m². It boasts twelve meeting rooms, a wi-fi network and a range of services including...

At the end of last year you announced the forthcoming opening of a Spaces coworking space at La Défense. Can you tell us more about this project? Christophe Burckart - It's going to be the biggest coworking centre in France, one of the five biggest in the world, and naturally the biggest...

What do Microsoft, HSBC, Dell, McKinsey, BNP Paribas, Heineken and Chanel all have in common? Apart from the fact that they are large, very large companies, they have all started testing out the latest trend in the world of work: coworking spaces. At the end of 2016, for example, Microsoft announced a partnership with WeWork, an emblematic player in these new...

We're looking at a different way of working How do you see workplaces changing? Jacques Léonard - For the last three or four years, we've been developing new ways of working by deploying environments that are in harmony with new uses. We have noticed that, overall, employees spend half their working time...