New Year, New Workspace
Oxford Innovation has kicked off 2021 with the launch of our Corporate Co-working Membership, a pilot scheme in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire that will give businesses the chance to offer employees an opportunity to collaborate at a convenient workspace close to home, which can also be used to escape unwanted interruptions or to help improve general wellbeing.
We are excited to be at the forefront of a workplace revolution and have an overriding aim of being able to support businesses of all sizes across the UK to meet the growing needs of employees as well as promote collaboration.
Our Corporate Co-working Membership will provide flexible access to contemporary workspace in blocks of 160 hours, which can be used by up to four employees in a centre at one time.
We have chosen to pilot the scheme at our Grassroots centre in Oxford, owned by Oxford Sciences Innovation, along with our Bucks Hubs in High Wycombe and Aylesbury, owned by Bucks New University.
Oxford is a vibrant city full of young professionals, many of whom live in a shared house. They still want the flexibility of being able to work from home, but with the balance of an accessible, high quality workspace close to home, where they will be able to meet like-minded professionals or work alongside colleagues if they choose to work in the same place. Likewise, people in Aylesbury, High Wycombe and surrounding towns will now be able to benefit from working in a professional environment without a long commute to London or unwanted interruptions experienced at home.
All three centres offer COVID secure co-working space with the perfect blend of privacy and community, and our team of community managers are on hand to provide support as required. Our Hubs in Buckinghamshire have the added benefit of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence.
If our pilot scheme proves successful, we are planning to rapidly roll it out across our network of 26 Business and Innovation Centres in England and Northern Ireland, helping to support companies of all sizes that want to retain and attract good talent.
The ways of office working may have changed forever, but dynamic workspaces are here to stay and can help businesses cut costs associated with a traditional office lease in favour of a far more flexible solution.
For further information about our Corporate Co-working Membership scheme, now piloting in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, visit: grassrootsworkspace.com or bucks-hubs.co.uk.