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Big companies pushing distributed work realize that mobile employees need three places to work: a corporate office, a home office and some sort of third place, an alternate office.
There are two visions about how best to meet the needs of the alternative office. One focuses on relieving congestion in big cities such as Toronto by putting office centers in suburbs near peoples' homes, a nascent model spearheaded by start-up Suiteworks. The other is the traditional professional suites model,catering to travelers wherever they happen to touch down. UK-based Regus already owns the latter and can expand and grab some of the former.
Regus started out 15 years ago renting meeting rooms and long-term office space to companies that had outgrown their space and needed to set up a temporary branch office or quickly establish a presence in a new location. Regus came through bankruptcy in 2002 to acquire its rival, U.S. company HQ, and now is positioning itself to ride the distributed work wave, offering new services suited to distributed workers and independent contractors.
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