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The decision to rent a serviced office or furnish your own from scratch is a dilemma facing many entrepreneurs. Both options have their pros and cons. Here are the most important aspects of both solutions to help you make the best decision for your business.
Serviced offices – ready to work immediately
Professional, fully equipped offices in the center of Warsaw. Flexible contracts, excellent location, and full service—start working without unnecessary formalities.
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If you decorate your office yourself, you can go wild and plan everything to your own needs and your own taste. There are to be pink walls it will be, there is to be a desk in the shape of a heart, it will be. You can put an aquarium with a coral reef the size of a wall. Complete freedom.
By decorating the office ourselves, we can also theoretically save money. You can use old equipment, paint the walls yourself. You can also buy carpet on sale and cut it yourself. At most, it will be a little crooked.
As a result, it can be a dream office or a nightmare. It all depends on the initial wealth of your wallet.
Weaknesses of a self-decorated office
If you furnish your office yourself, you must sign a long-term contract with the building manager. Usually, the minimum rental period is three to five years. You can't cancel earlier under penalty.
We get bare walls, in which we have to do everything: paint, lay carpets, distribute installation for internet, buy and arrange furniture, printer, coffee machine, etc. Sign contracts with utility providers: internet, electricity, telephone, and a cleaning company. Hire a secretary if needed.
The whole process of getting an office ready for use usually takes one to three months. And this is time that could be spent on your proper work, which is what you are known for. For this period, you need to be provided with money for living and for investment.
It is difficult to determine in advance how much money is needed. The company does not produce anything, and its owner becomes a specialist in furnishing the office, which may never be of use to him again.
Advantages and disadvantages of renting a serviced office in Warsaw
Renting a serviced office takes a while. Once you've chosen the right place, all you have to do is sign a contract and pay for the chosen period. Usually the minimum is a month, but in a pandemic managers have become more flexible.
Benefits of a serviced office
We get a ready-made place prepared to work. Just put up a computer, connect to the Internet you can work. If we need to, we rent a landline on site.
A coffee maker and printer are waiting ready for use. Supplies, coffee, tea, etc. are taken care of by the manager.
You can use a secretary from the beginning, and after-hours cleaning service will take care of the cleanup.
Renting a modern serviced office relieves us of the need to provide serious start-up capital, that is, to furnish the room. You can immediately sit down to work and make money doing what you know how to do.
Disadvantages of renting a serviced office
Renting a serviced office also has some disadvantages, well... limitations.
We rent a furnished space, equipped with the necessary infrastructure, which we cannot freely shape. We won't go crazy by painting the walls pink, because the room must be ready to rent after we give up. We are not allowed to hammer nails into the wall to hang pictures. Unless the owner agrees.
For companies that don’t need a permanent office but want to project a professional image, a virtual office Warszawa is the perfect solution. It provides a prestigious business address, mail handling, and a dedicated phone line—all without the cost of renting physical space.
Is it worth renting serviced offices?
A personally rented and prepared office can be original and cheap or richly decorated. However, it takes a lot of time and capital to prepare it. It requires the commitment of the owner at the start and later in embracing the necessary things.
Renting a serviced office is immediate and you can start working right away. It is easy to cancel the rental. A serviced office doesn't let you go crazy when furnishing it, but you know in advance how much it will cost. Serviced offices also provide basic office services and are often able to recommend a lawyer or accountant.
In the market of office rental companies, Warszawa is the largest concentration of them. Renting an office in Warsaw is, of course, possible in Biznes Spot.
