As restrictions begin to conditionally lift and employers are given more freedom to bring their staff back to the office, experts have claimed that companies may start to introduce a…
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As many remote workers grapple with separating their professional and personal lives, a new trend in soundscapes of busy offices has emerged, helping those in temporary home office set-ups to…
The global pandemic has transformed the way many undergo the daily commute, the rising popularity in cycling holding the potential to change key areas around the post-COVID office. Reports have…
Whilst operations across London slowly begin to start back up, many offices are still empty, reports showing that only 34% of Brits have actually returned to the office amidst the…
A recent survey conducted by Morgan Stanley analysts revealed only 34% of office workers in the UK have returned to their normal place of work. This represents a considerably small…
The working from home experiment has gained unpredicted traction in recent months due to covid-19 and one insurance brokerage Get Indemnity™ has developed a policy with its staff for a…
Derwent London is pleased to announce that it has exchanged contracts to sell the long leasehold interest of 2 & 4 Soho Place W1 to Sir Lloyd Dorfman’s family’s property…
As lockdown measures across the U.K. slowly ease, many offices have begun making preparations for employees to come back to work. This is only the case for those who can’t…
Over the past few months, the U.K., as well as much of the world overall, had been imposed by lockdown measures, hoping to stop the spread of coronavirus, and protect…
Concerns over terrorist attacks rise as the U.K.’s Home Office republishes advice and urges schools, offices and hospitals to rehearse responses to “marauding” terror attacks – these meaning “fast-moving and…
After the government’s recent review on the 23rd June, PM Boris Johnson announced a number of changes to the current lockdown measures, initially put in place to slow the spread…
A survey conducted by Premier Inn explored how Brits have adapted to remote working during the COVID-19 lockdown, with more than half (54%) of those surveyed reported to have transformed…
Non-essential high street shops are expected to open today on 15th June, following almost 3 months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. In total, around 7,000 high streets across…
The coronavirus pandemic has had profound implications on how people work across the UK and indeed the world. Whilst demand for office space to rent remains stable and strong, there…
The UK’s largest telecommunications provide, British Telecom (BT) has decided to axe 270 of its office locations in the UK, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. With 300 locations originally, BT will…
Coronavirus has certainly changed the way people work, with lockdown forcing around 5 million people to work from home and millions became furloughed waiting to hear if they could restart…
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has suggested that changes to workplace practices in the office may offer an effective exit from the current lockdown measures. The UK went into lockdown…
Renowned Dutch developer EDGE Technologies have revealed designs for the new offices in London, located on St Thomas Street along the capital’s South Bank. The development is planning to become…
Reports suggest that WeWork and Knotel have had difficulties paying their rents during the past month. The two flexible office companies were both already struggling financially before the current pandemic,…
After lockdown was introduced in late March, many of the UK’s construction firms have paused their operations. This has delayed developments for numerous different tech giants’ new offices in London,…
As coronavirus cases reach over 3 million worldwide, the UK continues to be in lockdown; staying at home and remote working where possible, with non-essential businesses closed. Whilst some lockdown…
The UK government has rejected the EU’s initial request to open up an office in Belfast. The office would mark a permanent and established presence in Northern Ireland’s capital, which…
As coronavirus cases top 1 million worldwide, the way people live their daily lives continues to get more and more unusual. Countries all over the world have begun to impose…
Coronavirus cases have now risen over 51,000 in the UK, and 1 million worldwide. With the virus continuing to spread at such a rapid rate, businesses across the UK are…
On the 1st April, major WeWork shareholder SoftBank decided against buying £2.45 billion in the start-ups shares. This comes as a huge blow to co-founder and former CEO Adam Neumann,…
Recent reports from property investment and development company Great Portland Estates (GPE) show that there is still a demand for offices to rent in London, despite the current COVID-19 situation….
Azizi Developments has announced they will be making their debut in London. The UAE company will be now opening offices in London in response to increasing customer demand for its…
Following earlier news this year that the venture capitalist firm, Sequoia Capital, will be opening a new London office later this year, there have been further office developments. It has…
It is becoming increasingly commonplace for offices in London to take into consideration sustainability, as well as trying to be as eco-friendly as possible. Given that the capital has the…
Office design and how you decide to furnish a workspace can end up having a significant impact on overall efficiency and productivity amongst your employees. There are a variety of…
Don’t underestimate the importance of a breakout space: in fact, meeting rooms may become a thing of the past in the next decade, and breakout spaces are likely to replace…
Coworking spaces are on the up in the UK, despite the high-profile downfall of some major players in the industry. Coworking spaces portfolios increase New statistics show that flexible…
The search engine giant will be adding even more offices to its already sizeable estate in the UK. How much more office space will Google acquire? According to recently published…
LaLiga, the top football division of the Spanish football league system has announced the exciting news that it has opened a new office in London, showing its commitment to the…
It has been recently announced that an office block in the heart of the capital has just been sold for a whopping £300 million in total. Who has bought…
Sequoia Capital, the venture capitalist that was one of the earliest investors in Whatsapp and Google, has announced it will be opening a London office in the not so distant…
The e-commerce behemoth Amazon has started its hunt for brand new office space in London, it has been reported. Where are Amazon’s offices in London? The existing office space Amazon…
Skymind Global Ventures (SGV) has just announced that it will be opening a new office in the capital. This will be an extension of its current office that is in…
FORE Partnership is planning to go ahead with its development for a brand new London office, after receiving planning permission approval from Southwark Council this month. The company acquired the…
It is anticipated that rents for commercial office space in London will increase over then next year, due to demand in the capital. More demand for office space in…
According to recent research conducted by regulatory consultancy Bovill, it is estimated that more than 1,000 banks, payment companies, and insurers from the EU will be opening offices in the…
The take up of Central London office space in the last quarter of 2019 rose considerably, as data for Q4 has now revealed. Office space take-up rose beyond 10-year…
Ahead of the launch of its new office space in Kings Cross, London that will be completed next year, Facebook has announced new jobs being created for 2020. The COO…
New 13-storey office buildings in the capital It has been announced that planning permission has been granted for new riverside offices on London’s South Bank. This new development will be…
Spanish billionaire closing in on £600m office deal Amancio Ortego, who is the founder of Inditex, the retailer behind brands including Zara and Massimo Dutto, is close to acquiring London’s…
RocketSpace to close UK operation It has just been announced that the shared office rival to WeWork, a San Francisco -based company called RocketSpace, will shut down in London. When…
Countrywide will be selling commercial property agency It has been announced that the estate agency group Countrywide will be giving up its commercial property agency Lambert Smith Hampton. Why…
Growing interest in Hong Kong buyers in London property The newly built luxury home market is getting an unexpected boost from Hong Kong buyers. This is despite the fact this…
The recent failure of the WeWork flotation that has been making the news of late thanks to the multiple troubles the co-working space has been having is raising fears that…
One of Europe’s most promising tech startups, the London-based Checkout.com, will soon be moving into new offices in the capital following considerable year on year growth in net revenues making…
The co-working business Central Working has unfortunately announced that it has just gone into administration, having just appointed administrators Quantuma, the independent advisory firm to deal with the fallout. Central…
Offices around the world have started to use images of the young activist Greta Thunberg to shame office workers who use single-use plastics. This trend, now known as “Greta-shaming” has…
In the aftermath of WeWork’s struggles to float, the company have notified their UK staff of upcoming redundancies, as it tries to manage its losses. WeWork staff throughout both the…
The virtual office space company, Kitt which uses virtual reality in order to help landlords both visualise and create space has raised over £2 million in seed funding its latest…
The office provider, Spaces, has just recently opened its largest co-working office space so far. The firm now spans over several floors in London Victoria, occupying over 80,000 square feet…
It has just been announced that the office behemoth WeWork is now facing further bad news, after Fitch Ratings, the influential ratings agency downgraded the company’s debt. What did the…
It is expected that the ride-hailing giant Uber, will soon be moving to a considerably larger headquarters in London, once a deal has been agreed upon with regulators as to…
In the last five years, the shared office space provider WeWork had seen breakneck expansion, with properties on New York’s Fifth Avenue to the dominating building One Poultry in London….
The streaming behemoth, Netflix, is expanding its business at a dramatic rate, and it is has just recently announced that will be increasing its office space in London, alongside the…
The global management consultancy organisation McKinsey & Company have recently moved locations, launching their new office to the Post Building, London. This recent move has been spurred on by the…
With the number of work spaces for freelancers and other office-less workers growing globally, increasing by 36% in 2017, many organisations have started to get involved in this growing trend….
A lettings agent (otherwise known as an estate agent) handles rental properties on behalf of their owners. This can be for both residential (homes where people live) and commercial properties…
It’s always been a widely known fact that if you’re a creative business, you should aim to work in the ‘creative capital’ Shoreditch. As the rents soar, the industries are…
With the Elizabeth line coming into effect at the end of this year, Farringdon East Crossrail Station will be the central point of the network. With 140 trains passing through…
