A Virtual Office provides all the essentials you’d expect from a physical office — such as a business address, live receptionist, company phone and fax, and mail processing services.
The big difference is you don’t pay for a full-time office space. Virtual offices enable businesses to create a commercial presence in a specific location, at a physical office building, but without the cost or commitment of maintaining a workplace.
You may be thinking: What’s the point? Why not just rent an office? When you think about it, few businesses need an office full-time. A lot of businesses frequently work from home or ‘third place’ locations, such as client offices, coworking spaces, and coffee shops.
To add to that, very few people use their office on weekends, holidays or even at 1am, so why still pay for an office round-the-clock when you can choose something with a flexible term.
Then there’s Covid-19. During the pandemic, more businesses than ever shifted to remote and home-based work environments. Many plan to stay that way — even large corporations. Even so, businesses still need certain elements of an office. They need a fixed address, a place to receive mail, someone to answer their phones, and occasional access to meeting rooms. They don’t need those things all at once. They certainly don’t need them 24/7. And that’s where a virtual office comes in.
