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Pay-as-you-go access launched for offices available by the day
Dayoffice Card [http://www.dayofficecard.com ] was launched in the UK this week, with a 'zero start up cost' special offer for the first 250 members. Dayoffice Card provides Pay As You Go access to professional quality offices by the day at more than 150 locations in England, Scotland and Wales.
The death of the office announced
The UK's leading conference call provider say with new technological advancements there's no longer any need to be tied to a desk.
Rapid move toward shorter leases on business premises
The average length of a small business lease has been reduced by more than 12 months in the last two years, as business owners looked to retain their flexibility, according to research from the British Property Federation (BPF).
A BPF study of 91,000 tenancies found the average lease length for a small firm dropped to 4.1 years in 2009-10, compared to 5.4 years in 2007-8. Cutting the length of business leases has been a trend since the early 1990s, when a typical lease length was between 20 and 25 years.
Moving from a home office to a 'real' office
It is often extremely difficult for a small business based from home to know precisely when the time is appropriate to make the move from the convenience and low outgoings of a home office, to a professional, commercial office space.
John King suggests there may be many implications, both monetarily and strategically to take into account. Here are five very important points to ask yourself when deliberating over this often seen issue.

