| For as long as there have been businesses there | | | | traditionally done on location by a dedicated |
| have been issues with finding the correct and | | | | employee that was physically at the location are |
| most effective office space to make sure that | | | | being handled by people who telecommute. Still |
| your outgoing dollar is maximized and that you | | | | other companies have chosen to outsource these |
| are getting the most return for your outgoing | | | | jobs to other countries in an attempt to save |
| dollar. | | | | money. |
| This was true many years ago even when the | | | | The more common thing that is arising here is the |
| economy was strong. Smart business people | | | | use of virtual office space. In other words a |
| looked to get as much as they could out of the | | | | central clearing house, usually located at a very |
| available office location. Today with revenue | | | | visible address in a larger metropolitan area. Here |
| shrinking and employee productivity waning it is | | | | a staff many handle hundreds or thousands of |
| more important than ever to make every dollar | | | | companies. The result is that instead of having |
| count. | | | | one person drawing a salary for doing one job for |
| At one point in time before the advent of the | | | | one company where he or she is busy a small |
| Internet, the brick and mortar or physical location | | | | amount of the time. We now have a staff of |
| of your office was something that took planning. | | | | people doing that job and each and every one of |
| Customer demographics were examined and | | | | them is busy nearly all of the time. As you can |
| meetings were held to determine where the best | | | | imagine, this is cutting down on a lot of under |
| spending of cash would be to make it a better | | | | used labor and is truly maximizing the manpower |
| experience for the customer. | | | | dollar for the businesses using today's varied |
| Today with nearly everyone on the planet having | | | | office spaces. |
| instant access to the Internet the traditional | | | | The business environment is continually shifting |
| paradigms of the office space have to be | | | | and realigning it's self with the many needs of the |
| reexamined to make sure that money, time and | | | | world and is evolving on an almost hour by hour |
| resources are being used in the most effective | | | | basis. The winner in the competition will be the |
| manner. To many in today's competitive | | | | companies that are better able to adjust and go |
| marketplace this means a shift to using office | | | | with the flow to make sure that the customers |
| space in a manner that would have been | | | | are getting the best service possible. In today's |
| unthinkable even only a few short years ago. | | | | business world which is driven by a virtual world |
| With less people actually needing to physically walk | | | | where the customer is no longer across town but |
| into the office, the actual office space its self can | | | | might well be across the globe, the subject of |
| be reexamined and perhaps even totally done | | | | office space is one that is worth re-evaluating. |
| away with. Today many jobs that were | | | | |