London-based flex office provider WorkPad has added to it’s suite of tools to service with a partnership with Flexi Offices. The partnership sees the first ever roll out in the commercial property sector of the Smart Viewing platform.
Whilst the technology is being used in the residential sector with great success and gaining more and more popularity by the day due to the pandemic, it had not yet been employed in the commercial office market. WorkPad are the first to partner with the platform provider Flexi Offices to roll it out.
Smart Viewing is an interface that combines a two-way video link and a presentation screen serving 360 degree virtual tours, videos, floorplans and static images. Viewings can be conducted from a desktop, tablet, laptop or phone.
The benefits are many. Through a time efficient and informative virtual viewing, the client can view a long list of properties and rule out those insuitable, whilst enabling a short list of preferred properties, ensuring in person viewings are saved for shortlisted properties only. Multiple team members can view properties simultaneously, and preview properties for the ultimate decision maker. The time saved in travel is significant, and the remote viewing ensures a safe viewing in this time of Covid.
The landlord or office provider are present during the viewing – held through the invitation only shared platform, enabling them to be on hand to guide a tour, answer questions and negotitate as suitable during the viewing. Once in the viewing, the office provider can also toggle between properties, allowing for multiple viewing and discussion.
WorkPad CEO Edward Griffin says: “Enabling our clients to have personal, virtual walk throughs, with almost instant access from the Smart Viewing platform, is a no-brainer. Partnering with Flexi Offices on this initiative once again puts WorkPad ahead of the game in the London serviced office market.” Griffin also mentioned the important role this new initiative will play in a post-Covid context, in which businesses will need to prioritise flexibility.
Michael Dubicki, Director of Business Development at Flexi Offices emphasised how their intent is to ultimately act as a bridge that will ease the communication between all sides of the market. “With increased adoption of tech in our niche, we see this as a natural evolution of the flex space sales cycle which will, in time, have scope to replace the first viewing process altogether. We are very excited to partner with WorkPad to prove the concept and make a solid impact on sales volumes,” says Dubicki.
WorkPad has partnered in the past with some of London’s biggest estates, including Shaftesbury, Grosvenor and Langham and has to date specialised in short term, bespoke private office spaces – offering a mix of both a traditional lease and a private serviced office. Locations include Marylebone, Soho, Covent Garden, Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia in a portfolio of over twenty properties.
WorkPad are one of the first flex operators to offer a true fully customisable flexible offering, complemented by WorkPad’s own in house design team to ensure a bespoke, attractive approach for tenants. The company also recently launched WorkPad HQ, aimed at bridging the gap between landlord and customers, which will see their offer extending to over 500,000 sq ft of prime central London office space.
