10 Reasons to Work Out of Office Evolution

In the six years since Office Evolution became a franchise, the rental-office concept has expanded rapidly, opening up new locations in markets across the U.S. The brand’s growth has been hastened by a rapidly increasing demand for reliable non-traditional working spaces. As businesses continue to turn to online tools to facilitate more of their daily operations, remote work is becoming the standard.

Until recently, working remotely meant working from home or in coffee shops. While those stations are immediately more comfortable than most offices, they can quickly lose their appeal. Working from home leaves much room for distraction and can blur the lines between personal time and work, and coffee shops can be noisy, unreliable and expensive. Office Evolution offers remote and independent workers a number of distinct advantages over those options as well as traditional office spaces.

Andy Bean is an Office Evolution area manager in Atlanta, where the brand has established a large and growing customer base. Bean said the brand has caught on quickly because of the number of benefits it offers for professionals. Here are 10 of the most appealing of those benefits.

1. No lease

Office Evolution’s pricing options include month-to-month, six-month and year-long rentals. That’s an enormous advantage for professionals who are working project-to-project and may need an office for a certain pre-determined stretch of time but not after. “Typical office leases are expensive and you are locked in for at least a year, often much longer,” Bean said. “And when you sign a commercial lease, you carry that on your balance sheet; it has long term implications on your finances. With a short-term lease like ours, you can pay for it can have once and it’s off your balance sheet.”

2. Nationwide locations

For professionals who travel frequently, it can be a challenge to find a good work environment in each new city. “Office Evolution has established office spaces in states across the U.S. and the franchise is expanding rapidly,” said Bean. That allows traveling professionals to count on a comfortable and familiar office space on the road.

3. A secure network

One of the risks of taking business outside of the office is relying on public or insecure networks to send and receive sensitive information. Office Evolution removes that risk by offering a secure private ethernet. “Our ethernet is not just a luxury,” Bean said, “it’s an essential safeguard that professionals often can't find elsewhere.”

4. A Network of professionals

Every Office Evolution location has a business center manager who can help connect local professionals. “One of the downsides of working independently, outside of a large business, is that you have to find and build your own relationships with other professionals,” Bean said. “If you need a CPA, (and you don't know where to look, you can’t just look in your company directory.) Office Evolution offers a networking group to facilitate those relationships, and that’s something you can’t find at other rental offices.”

5. Parking

“You’d be surprised how often we hear how important our parking is to people,” Bean said. Every Office Evolution offers free parking, with spaces for each of its renters. That has proven an enormous benefit, particularly in urban areas like Atlanta, where parking is scarce.

6. Flexible hours

“While most professionals working remotely for a business work mostly standard hours, freelance professionals, particularly creatives, have less strict schedules,” said Bean. Office Evolution offers 24/7 access to all of its workspaces, so clients can work whenever they are most productive.

7. Kitchens

“For a lot of people, coffee is essential to work,” Bean said, “but the problem with coffee shops is that you have to keep buying things to work there.” Every Office Evolution location is equipped with a full kitchen, stocked with Starbucks brand coffee.

8. A business address

Office Evolution’s mailroom provides two distinct advantages over a home address or P.O. box. The first is an easy way to keep all of your work mail at work, separate from your personal mail and exactly where you need it. The second is a level of professionalism that comes with an office mailing address. “A lot of people who work out of Office Evolution have clients, and it’s crucial that they maintain their clients’ trust,” said Bean. “If they ask a client to mail something to their home address or a P.O. box, it can feel unprofessional and start to erode that trust.”

9. Flexible work spaces

Office Evolution offers a range of office spaces, including conference rooms, shared work spaces and private rooms, allowing professionals to work on their own, collaborate with partners or host clients at any time. “The variety of spaces we offer can accommodate virtually any need,” Bean said. “Not only does that allow us to host any number of different professions, it allows people who might be doing different work every day to know that they can find a functional and comfortable space for whatever they need to work on.”

10. Office Management

Many businesses employ a full-time office manager to maintain the daily operations of their office. That’s a luxury that most remote and independent professionals don’t enjoy, unless they work out of Office Evolution. “Every Office Evolution location is fully staffed and equipped to manage all of your office needs. The phones are answered, the mail is delivered, the kitchen is cleaned and stocked with coffee and there’s always someone on hand to help with whatever you need.”