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We got some positive coverage from the Trendspotter section of The Financial Times on May 23rd.
‘OfficePOD is marketing to companies with staff who could work from home, offering a service that will supply, install and maintain an office capsule. It calculates the average saving from basing a worker at home rather than in central London could be more than £9,000 per year, excluding commuting costs’.
Our invitation to form a central part of Grand Designs Live proved a great success. As well as the 120,000 members of the public that visited the exhibition, it gave several interested companies the opportunity to come and look at the POD whilst it was on show.
The concept, materials used and quality of the POD were described as ‘outstanding’ by Kevin McCloud and the POD received a wide and comprehensive range of media attention. It acted as the live radio interview room throughout the period and also featured in Reuters’ online coverage of the event.
One interesting outcome from our consumer market testing at the show is that we are now selling POD’s to small home-based businesses and individuals. This is in addition to our core offering of the flexible leasing and service agreement model preferred by larger organisations.
As a result of the high level of recent interest in OfficePOD, Grand Designs Live have asked us to show an OfficePOD at their forthcoming annual event at London’s EXCEL centre.
An OfficePOD will be centre stage and next to the main seminar theatre. The POD will be used as the quiet space for live radio interviews as well as a backdrop for TV clips.
If you are interested in looking at the POD again or for the first time, please make contact with enquiries@officepod.co.uk. The show runs every day from the 25th April to 4th May.
Last week’s Preview was a great success with significant interest from the media, employers and investors alike. We have added a few images from the day.
We are delighted with the level of media interest that has spun out of the Preview held last week – with positive coverage from over 20 online business or lifestyle magazines to the end of March.
This includes Fast Company, Springwise, Treehugger and The Green Daily. One interview from the Preview – http://www.threesacrowdonline.com/articles/Cut-the-Commute/
The online interest has led to an enormous surge in interest with over 20,000 new visitors to the website in the 6 days since the Preview.
We’ll keep you posted on any new and interesting articles as well as the forthcoming piece on WorkplaceTV.
Our design prototype is being previewed in Central London on the 25th March. The Preview is an invite only event with invitations having gone to some 200 senior individuals from both major private and public sector organisations as well as all of the relevant media organisations.
The Preview will run from 10am to 4pm in the newly refurbished foyer of The Cumberland Hotel, W1.
If your company has an interest in the OfficePOD service or you are from a relevant media publication, then please contact us by way of e-mail (preview@officepod.co.uk) to receive an invitation.
One of Workplace TV’s new clips is a series of short interviews with a number of ‘people on the street’ where they are asked to talk about their own home working experiences.
Workplace TV is quickly becoming the go-to place for recorded insights, knowledge, trends and guidance around how modern employers and their staff use the workplace. This short edited film gives an insight into the employees view.
http://www.workplacetv.com/video/working-at-home-the-word-on-the-street
JBA has drawn together a report on ‘Smartworking’ – a term aimed at encapsulating today’s new working practices and philosophies. JBA’s report looks at the driving forces of cultural and organisational change and clearly frames how quickly viewpoints are changing.
The report provides a ‘roots-to-future’ story of shifting attitudes to work, and to provide perspective on;
View a copy of the report here
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