By Abdi Ali
Published November 3, 2019
The speed at which technology has evolved means that not only are business people able to take their work around the city as they move from meeting to meeting, but they are also able to carry out these tasks and stay cost-effectively connected with their team or their management thanks to solutions that have made even telephoning seem cumbersome and old-fashioned.
A company that says it ‘provides businesses with the flexibility to grow without risk or commitment, and attracts a diverse network of 2.5 million people, from entrepreneurs and SMEs to multi-national blue-chip companies’, has opened yet another business centre in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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Regus, an operating brand of International Workspace Group (IWG) PLC that provides fully serviced offices around the world, opened its 10th business centre in Britam Tower in Upper Hill district of Nairobi on October 31, 2019.
The evening cocktail event for the new centre that offers fully furnished offices, co-working spaces, meeting rooms and virtual offices to the growing number of start-ups, freelance workers, entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nairobi hosted current and prospective customers and the news media.
The guests were treated to a tour of the offices, co-working spaces and meeting rooms with 360-degree views of the city.
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Regus says it has Since 2007 been providing “co-working and meeting spaces to meet the increasing demand for flexible, technologically advanced, professional work areas”; that all types of businesses use its “services on a monthly membership basis for work, interviews, meetings, training, and as office space for local and international companies,”; and that “Foreign entities also use the business centres to establish a local presence in the capital.”
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“The most recent Regus locations were strategically chosen to support areas in Kenya experiencing where flexible working and co-working hubs are flourishing. We provide the support of much-needed technological infrastructure and services to businesses and we have seen our business centres boost economic growth in all the locations where we put down our footprint,” says Heidi Duvenage – Country Manager in charge of East & Southern Africa and Ghana at IWG.
Regus, that was established in 1989, says it has set sights on opening more business centres not just in Nairobi but also across the breadth and width of Kenya in 2020.