New Coworking Concept Puts Portugal In The Forefront Of Work Spaces

Following a Hybrid Business Center philosophy, the Avila Coworking is a pioneer space in Portugal which allows conjugating the coworking with the virtual office and secretariat functionalities

Lisbon, 26th June 2012 The Avila Business Centers, a company of turnkey physical spaces for renting and virtual offices, has just come to present its new space - Avila Coworking. It‘s an innovating coworking concept clearly directed to the needs of liberal professionals, 21^st century companies of small, medium and large dimension, for those who consider corporate image and the offer of flexible solutions with a balanced cost-benefit relation a higher value of extreme importance.

Specially designed to the modern professional, looking necessarily not only for a prestige address with good accessibilities which can be putted on a visit card, but also for a comfortable and adequate work space to receive clients and business partners, the new Avila Coworking is located in Lisbon, in Avenida da República close to Saldanha. This forefront place provides this way a wide and quiet place where several companies and professionals may work in one or more work stations, available to rent per desk and being able also to use all the support in terms of professional secretariat, meeting and work rooms.

Being inserted in a modern offices building with reception, at the Avila Coworking you bread a corporate environment and, at the same time, informal. This way, both small companies such as executives and freelancers can gain with all the advantages associated with the occupation of the same space, sharing contacts and establishing synergies. However, and on its 20 work stations available, the Avila Coworking values not only the collaboration, but also the comfort of each company and each professional. The desks and chairs and modern, comfortable and ergonomic and all the surround space stimulates the creativity and the well-being, critical elements to ensure a higher level of satisfaction and productivity. Among other examples, at users‘ disposal, there is a “cokitchen” for meals, a locker with key and a lounge area for more relaxed moments and coffee breaks.

Not less important, the state of the art technology is present all over the space, putting at the clients disposal wireless Internet, IP phones, plasma screens and Apple TV in meeting rooms for presentations streaming directly from smartphones and Apple tablets.

On an optional basis, the new and innovating Avila Coworking also offers access to the most complete virtual office service of the market, putting at their clients disposal a secretary that may answer telephone calls, forward the calls, receive correspondence and report all the subjects, whether from the myOffice application available for free for iPhone and Android, or by email and SMS. This way, and independently of the physical place where the client may be, one will always be in touch with the office.

Besides that, the service can be complemented with networking actions and workshops made through the Avila Corporate Club. These promotion and networking action have as objective to promote contacts interchange, which represents undoubtedly an added value to companies that, for example, are initiating their activity.

Also important, in the same floor of the Avila Coworking is the Avila Business Centers, which may be used by the client whenever he needs, for example, to have a meeting, training actions or workshops with a more formal character. This way is offered two complementary environments, but which ensure the same professionalism level.

And because flexibility is likewise the word of order at the Avila Coworking, there are four types of packages at the clients‘ disposal - Nomad, Basic, Corporate and Free Pass. The first two are aimed at more basic needs, while the former two constitute a more complete offer. The coworking packages are available from 147 Euros per month.

Several solutions in only one place, premium virtual office, state of the art technology and a partner‘s platform: this is how the Avila Coworking is defined: a Hybrid Business Center of election.

«The Avila Coworking concept is clearly differentiating and fits perfectly in the Hybrid Business Centers philosophy», refers Carlos Gonçalves, Avila Business Centers CEO. The responsible underlines the importance of this being “the first space in Portugal to combine the traditional way of office rental with the coworking one, allowing even to include in this last one the virtual office”. According to Carlos Gonçalves, «in the traditional coworking space companies do not have secretariat support or telephone answering, having only available a work station; on a Hybrid Business Center, such as this Avila Coworking, you may find a Corporate environment which allows you to reinforce the image and have access to meeting rooms equipped with the more recent, benefiting also from all the secretariat support. If companies need they may upgrade to a traditional office, without leaving the same space and keeping the Address and the secretariat support they had until then”. Not less important, the Avila Business Centers CEO reminds that «our clients which are on a telework regime can perfectly conciliate working from home. The myOffice app allows them to have remote access to the office and in Avila they have always the secretariat making the telephonic and face to face answering in the name of the company, being notified in real time whenever you have a new call or correspondence arrival”.

For more information about the Avila Coworking, visit the website: www.avilacoworking.com/en/.

The search and reservation of the packages can be done through the website: www.avilacoworking.com/en/pacotes.

 

About the Avila Business Centers  

Founded in 2004, the Avila Business Centers , besides renting turnkey physical work spaces, is leader in the virtual offices business where presents solutions with prices between 50 and 80 Euros per month. They have several services associated, among them legal and financial support, personalized telephone answering and access to the potentialities of remote management of the myOffice app for mobile devices: Android, iPhone and iPad the first virtual office worldwide app for mobile devices. Currently it counts with more than 400 national and international clients and is member and representative in Portugal of the major Business Center network in the World, the eOffice International Network, with more than 300 locations and managed from the United Kingdom. Avila Business Centers has its premises in Lisbon, in Avenida da República and in Avenida João Crisóstomo. It won two awards: the 2011 Call Center trophy and the 2012 IDC CIO Awards, which recognized the myOffice app as one of the ten best technological Portuguese projects. For more information visit www.avilabusinesscenter.com.