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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. 

Huge savings on rates bills for over 500,000 smaller businesses

From today over half a million businesses will, for one year, get double their usual Small Business Rate relief as the Government's budget promises to support local enterprise kick in.

The Government's emergency Budget set out plans to rebuild and rebalance local economies so that new businesses and economic opportunities spread across the country. The one-year reprieve from business rate bills will lighten the load for small companies, giving them more freedom to manage their accounts and grow.

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.