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2012-05-16 06:19:56
LONDON—With the Olympics coming up, many companies are exploring—or at least being encouraged to explore—flexible working through vehicles like virtual offices and telecommuting. With this in mind, Powwownow is offering suggestion that complements the virtual office: teleconferencing.
Powwownow is reporting a 30 percent increase in its teleconferencing business year-over-year. That, the company says, confirms that remote working is on the rise and displays a move toward more flexible working in Britain. That is in line with Davinci Virtual Office Solutions’ internal records of the rise of virtual office use.
“In this age of technology, work no longer needs to be confined by the boundaries of an office or even 9 a.m. to 5 p.m,” says Simon Curry, CEO of Powwownow. “Technology enables us to interact on the move, from anywhere at any time. It allows a greater flexibility for businesses.”
There is strong support for flexible working, including virtual offices, in the United
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2012-05-15 14:46:08
CERRITOS, CA—The City of Cerritos offers businesses a strategic location in a community with a strong fiscal position, exceptional service and a tradition of visionary leadership, according to the city’s own description.
If we want to stick with facts, we can say Cerritos is located smack dab in the center of the Los Angeles/Orange County metropolitan area. The 5, 605 and 91 Freeways feed into Cerritos, a park-like community with a network of tree-lined streets.
Cerritos is midway between downtown Los Angeles and the business centers of Irvine, Santa Anna and Anaheim. Cerritos has become one of Southern California’s premier commercial crossroads because it’s virtually in the geographic center of the region.
Davinci Virtual Office Solutions offers virtual office space in Cerritos at the Cerritos Business Center. Located at 18000 Studebaker, these Cerritos virtual offices start at just $95 a month. You can see plenty of pictures of our Cerritos virtual offices here.
When
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2012-05-14 14:33:38
SALT LAKE CITY-Exciting news! We’ve just launched a new and improved, ultra-modern, social media friendly Web site and blog for our virtual office customers.
We hope you like it, because we didn’t take the project lightly. Indeed, we custom built the new virtual office Web site and virtual office blog over a 10-month period—and we used the most advanced programming and technologies available.
What does that mean for you? Virtual office users—or would-be virtual office users—can now browse our all-new easy-to-navigate Web site and choose from more than 1,000 virtual office locations and business communication services.
And guess what? Our new virtual office Web site also offers interactive videos and detailed feature descriptions to help you with your virtual office buying decisions. The new virtual office Web site even provides real-time online provisioning. That means your virtual office account can be up and running instantly.
“Our prospects and customers have been asking for an
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2012-05-11 17:05:41
BOULDER—Did you know that there are 77 million people in the United States that are 55 or older?
Indeed, we are at a tipping point—and employers can do one of two things: watch them sit on the sidelines, drawing from unsustainable entitlement programs and the general economy, or enable them to continue working and contribute to the country’s economic growth and prosperity. Virtual offices can empower the second scenario.
Recent AARP surveys indicate that 80 percent of the Baby Boomers intend to continue working after leaving their regular career jobs. More than half of them will do so on less than a full-time basis. The Center for Productive Longevity (CPL) calls this a ticking time bomb. But, again, we think virtual offices can help diffuse it.
“We have been aware of this ticking time bomb for years without taking effective action. Now it’s really getting louder with the growing retirement of Baby Boomers
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2012-05-10 14:59:44
CHICAGO-Yesterday, we looked at a CareerBuilder survey that explored how working moms balance their jobs with their home life. We’ll continue looking at this topic today from a different perspective—financial pressures.
According to the survey, financial pressures are playing a key role in how moms are managing time at work. Thirty-nine percent of working moms and 43 percent of working dads in the survey reported that they are the sole financial provider in their household.
But there’s a disparity that makes it more difficult for working moms. Working dads who are the sole breadwinner were almost twice as likely to earn $50,000 or more and were approximately three times as likely to earn six figures as working moms. Women were much more likely to earn less than $35,000 compared to men.
“As more moms assume the sole or primary breadwinner role in their households, they’re feeling increasingly torn between providing financial security for
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2012-05-09 14:53:28
CHICAGO—The struggle to balance career and family starts in the earliest stages of parenthood. So says CareerBuilder’s annual study of working moms. But a virtual office could help.
The survey shows that 26 percent of working moms who have given birth to a child in the last three years reported they did not take the full maternity leave allowed by their company—and 10 percent took two weeks or less. Virtual offices can allow women more time to stay at home without missing out on work they deem important.
That’s vital, given that competitive work environments and demanding positions may be causing more women to reduce their time off from work after delivery. While 44 percent of working moms who’ve had a child in the last three years reported taking more than eight weeks of maternity leave, 12 percent said they took two weeks or less. Forty percent were off work for six
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2012-05-08 19:36:55
NEW YORK—Mother’s Day is right around the corner, and in case you are wondering what to get the working mom in your life on this special day just take notice of a new survey from TheLadders.
According to the survey, a virtual office might be a good gift. That’s because working mothers care more about having flexible hours after returning to work than spending more time at home while on leave.
In fact, when asked to prioritize six “work situations” as a working mother, 44 percent chose flexibility as most important versus only 5 percent who said they would opt for longer maternity leave. A virtual office can provide that flexibility.
The survey also shows that working mothers ranked the ability to work from home (29%), convenient working hours (20%), and on-site day care (2%) as priorities. Again, a virtual office can help.
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2012-05-07 11:31:24
SALT LAKE CITY—When the alternative workplace industry wants to know more about the latest trends in virtual offices, it turns to Davinci Virtual Office Solutions COO Martin Senn.
Indeed, Senn authored an insightful blog post on the Global Workspace Association’s (GWA) blog. The title: “Virtual Offices – Away We Work … Anytime, Anywhere, Everyone!”
“Today’s businesses and entrepreneurs are finding quickly that a virtual office is the best solution for the new work day of the 21st century. Companies of all sizes are discovering that a virtual office setup offers low entry costs, minimal overhead, valuable on-demand services and great flexibility,” Senn writes.
“All that without sacrificing the corporate image and professionalism! A large number of business analysts agree that the virtual office trend is worldwide, here to stay, and that adoption and usage will grow rapidly over the next years.”
Senn notes that the workspace-as-a-service Industry is perfectly positioned to deliver an array
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2012-05-04 11:09:29
BOULDER—Just how many flexible jobs are there in the world? How many opportunities are out there to work from virtual offices?
Probably too many to count, but FlexJobs is offering some indication of how big the trend is actually getting. For the first time, FlexbJobs has surpassed 10,000 job openings on its Web site. All of the jobs offer some sort of flexibility, including part-time, telecommute, freelance, virtual office positions, and more.
“This is an exciting milestone,” says Sara Sutton, CEO of FlexJobs, noting that the company’s job research team has hand-screened and verified every virtual office, telecommuting or other flex-time job before posting it to the site. “Hopefully it’s indicative that the economy is turning around as well as more companies are jumping on board to offer work-life balance.”
FlexJobs also posted the data from its April 2012 Flexible Index Report. The career fields with the most openings, in order, are medical
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2012-05-03 10:18:18
ALEXANDRIA, VA—We’ve been focusing a lot on the flexible workplace this week—and with good reason. The 2012 National Study of Employers just came out and it’s revealing an increase in employers that offer flex time. Virtual offices fit clearly into this picture.
Published jointly by the Families and Work Institute and the Society for Human Resources (SHRM), the survey shows that significantly more employers are allowing at least some employees to get flexible. Virtual offices are finding their place in the flex time work trend.
“It seems that employers are dealing with the lingering economic instability by trying to accomplish more with fewer people,” says Ellen Galinsky, president and co-founder of FWI and an author of the study. “Most of the gains allow employees to work longer hours or adjust those hours to care for their personal and family responsibilities while getting their work done. Although some may have expected employers to
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