Coworking Space, Traditional Office—or Both? The Benefits of Serviced Offices

As remote work requirements unwind across the country, one thing has become clear: for many companies, the office remains an essential part of doing business.

But even as companies and workers reawaken to the business value of in-person work, the role of the office is being redefined.

As you look toward the future, you may be re-evaluating the purpose of your workspace and what you do and do not need from an office.

Thankfully, contemporary businesses have access to a variety of workspace options to fit their specifications, including the serviced office, a more hybrid office model designed to accommodate the requirements of the modern professional workspace.

Serviced Offices: The Perfect Fusion of Coworking and Traditional Workspace

There have long been two main players in the world of workspaces: the traditional office and the coworking space.

Traditional offices—large, private workspaces where teams can work together—have more often been the choice for established enterprises, while freelancers, solopreneurs, and small teams have gravitated to coworking spaces with individual desks, open-concept layouts, and a more social atmosphere.

But what happens when the workplace becomes more nimble, as it has in recent years?

Just as freelancers and enterprise organizations represent two sides of a spectrum, so too do traditional offices and coworking spaces.

In the middle of this spectrum, you will find serviced offices like CP Group’s worCPlaces flexible office line.

These innovative workspaces offer a middle ground between coworking space and the traditional office, combining the sophistication and infrastructure of a traditional office space with the flexible terms, community, and service of the coworking model.

Serviced offices provide a mature, professional work environment paired with a top-tier suite of shared amenities, diverse work areas, networking and social events, and a community of like-minded people.

Six Benefits of Serviced Offices

1. Best-in-Class Technology Without the Price Tag

It can be easy to overlook the importance of an enterprise-grade WiFi network, but stable and secure network connectivity is critical to any modern business—whether or not they have the resources for a full IT department.

At a time when data protection is of the utmost importance, it is essential that your workspace help protect you from online threats with technologies like firewall provisioning and DNS protection.

With worCPlaces, you’ll have access to premium, enterprise-grade WiFi, without the enterprise-grade IT budget.

2. Brand and Culture Retention

There is a common misconception that operating in a shared workspace means sacrificing your company culture and branding, but serviced offices are shared workspaces that do not feel shared.

In fact, much like traditional office space, serviced office suites are completely customizable. This means you can incorporate your company branding throughout the space and even add your own furniture, decor, and hardware.

And by empowering you to gather in private workspaces where your team can communicate, collaborate, and interact just as they would in a traditional workspace, serviced offices also support team morale. All over the economy, businesses are seeing that collaboration in flexible workspaces fuels productivity, ignites idea sharing, and helps develop interoffice bonds.

3. Experiential Benefits and Amenities

In the modern professional landscape, employees have more choices than ever when deciding where and how they work—and they have the power to choose organizations that align with their ideals.

To attract the best talent, your office should be a place employees want to be, rather than somewhere they feel they have to be.

Serviced offices provide value-driven amenities and events that make life easier, more enjoyable, and more convenient for your people.

Take worCPlaces’ Lakeside location for example. CP Group’s serviced office concept in Sandy Springs, Georgia, is nestled into a campus environment offering a fitness center, a restaurant, WiFi connectivity, and an outdoor lake with seating, as well as campus events and programming.

And because serviced offices often exist outside of dense urban cores, they frequently put employees closer to their homes, reducing commutes and improving work-life balance.

4. Elevated Design and Diverse Work Areas

Serviced offices include spaces engineered for different work styles, from personal desks in private offices to lounge areas, rooftop patios, common areas, phone booths, and meeting and conference spaces.

To find the right balance, worCPlaces enlisted the world-renowned architecture firm Gensler to design office environments strategically targeted to the needs of modern professionals—so you can work how and where you want, whenever you want.

5. Collaboration Opportunities

Traditional offices typically favor private workspaces, while coworking spaces lean heavily into open-concept work areas.

Serviced offices include both.

With serviced offices, you and your team gain access to communal areas, giving you privacy when you need it and the ability to interact with others when you wish. And your company saves on space and amenities that, in a traditional office, might sit unused for much of the workday.

6. Scalable Space and Hidden Value

Perhaps more than ever, the modern business knows the importance of optimizing office capital expenditures. This is where serviced offices shine.

By combining the best aspects of coworking and traditional workspaces, serviced offices deliver:

Economies of scale for essential office services, technology, and infrastructure
Reduced overall capital expenditures
Fewer upfront costs for furnishing, build-outs, technology, deposits, and more
The ability to scale your space as your business demands
Cost-sharing for lesser-used shared spaces like conference rooms and kitchens

Serviced offices are also a turnkey solution, eliminating the need to hire a commercial real estate broker, negotiate with landlords, and outfit the space.

Embracing the Future of Office Spaces

There will always be organizations for whom the traditional office or a simple subscription to a coworking space are the perfect solution, but in an ever-evolving professional world, organizations that find value in aspects of both will find an optimal solution in serviced offices.

worCPlaces offers the best business and employee value proposition in office environments. Not only do they afford your company the flexibility it needs, they can actually save you money while you work.

If you would like to learn whether serviced offices are the right choice for your business, contact us today and take a tour of your local worCPlaces location.