Category: Industry

"My entire raison d’etre is to help and support the people around me; family, friends and employees... If I could change my title it would be MD of Hearts and Minds"....

Will the office market make a recovery post-Covid-19? As featured in Property Week, Facilitate Magazine, and Allwork.Space, CEO of Office Space in Town, Giles Fuchs, commented on why the Prime Minister is right to expect a surge in workers returning to the office following the pandemic is behind us.

In a recent comment piece for Property Week, OSiT CEO Giles Fuchs discusses the findings of OSiT’s recent survey into the impacts of lockdown remote working, including the silent mental health impacts employees are facing at home.

Despite the controversy around WeWork over recent weeks, there is still room for optimism in the industry. In this letter to the Financial Times, Giles Fuchs, CEO and Co-Founder of Office Space in Town argues that the fundamental drivers underpinning the flexible workspace boom will not cease to exist with WeWork.

What does a post-Brexit world look like for the UK's property industry? The UK's property market is underpinned by strong fundamentals, with London seeing more commercial real estate investment than any other global city in 2018 alone. With some 1,000 companies reportedly seeking new office space in London after Brexit, flexible workspace is an increasingly attractive proposition, offering HQ standard workspace on agile terms to companies of all sizes.

What is the key to success the highly competitive flexible workspace environment? “Location, design, building layout, staff, culture, ethos, IT, consistency of customer service. You can go on forever making a list, but all of those things need to be a part of it.” Says Giles Fuchs, CEO and Co-Founder of Office Space in Town (OSiT)

In light of recent news that the UK government is considering a new flexible working policy, Kate Tattersfield at AllWork.Space sat down with CEO and Co-Founder of OSiT, Giles Fuchs, to discuss how the new proposal could affect the UK flex space industry.

Recently, there’s been a lot of publicity around the gender pay gap workers face but how unfounded is it? If men are paid more than their female counterparts, why is that and why has it still not changed?

"What is really unique and special about Office Space in Town is the company culture and the culture of service. Having worked out of coworking spaces and serviced offices for different businesses myself, as well as having been in the regular corporate environment, I can see that the enthusiasm with which the team approaches customer care and social events is truly special."