{"id":4901,"date":"2020-05-01T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.davelevy.info\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2024-08-15T08:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T08:26:40","slug":"virtual-offices-for-an-occasional-user","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/virtual-offices-for-an-occasional-user\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Offices, for an occasional user"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have been thinking about how to get time and space in an office in the city & the west end; most providers are interested in very high option prices i.e. they expect a high usage of desk space. This isn’t what I need but here are my notes \u2026
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  1. https:\/\/www.eightclub.co.uk\/moorgate\/<\/a> I had a colleague that used these people, haven’t yet found the prices. Their Moorgate location<\/a> looks quite plush and has a Quartier restaurant. AS for views over the City, the Queen of Hoxton has those, although no offices or meeting rooms.<\/li>\n
  2. Regus<\/a> have been bought by (or merged into) IWG PLC, and has a sister company within the group called Spaces<\/a> which uses the same creative community bullshit as wework<\/a> which is also still going. Spaces have a Moorgate location<\/a>. Both seem to ask for too high a subscription for my needs, they assume one wants to drop in to work quite frequently and use the meeting room much less.<\/li>\n
  3. Last time I sought to solve this problem, I came across My Virtual Office<\/a>, who do mail forwarding and have meeting room space with a some free time, and then additionally chargeable. The meeting room might be too secluded. This is a cheap way of getting a north London address and the meeting spaces, the post forwarding might work too as it has a low option price but a higher per item charge. Since it competes with BT post boxes, it would need to be quite busy to be more expensive.<\/li>\n
  4. The final option is something like a “Friends of” offering that offers lounge or caf\u00e9 space such as the British Museum, or British Library,<\/a> I also checked out the City Business Library<\/a>. I wonder if the Zoo has a club house. (It would seem not, here’s their gold schem<\/a>e). I checked out the Civil Service Club<\/a> also but their rooms are on the whole too large.<\/li>\n
  5. I found notes for the London Library<\/a>, who have a number of facilities, including booths in the lounge, but no restaurant, they have a number of work spaces and of course a Library service. Individual membership is \u00a3525, but they might offer a discount of 70%, making the fee \u00a3157, which is equivalent to say BCS or (ISC)2.<\/sup><\/li>\n
  6. .The BCS has an atrium in their London Office<\/a> that I can visit, this is in Moorgate area, i.e. south of Moorgate, north of the Bank, and South West of Liverpool Street.<\/li>\n
  7. Wework<\/em><\/strong>, now offer a day rate drop-in membership booked by an app, at least at their Shoreditch Office<\/a>, which is nea<\/a>r Hoxton Station.<\/li>\n
  8. I came across labs.com<\/a>, who have a fee structure that works.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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