Spacevox embodies the "agile" idea of the office

The app created by Divox promotes an "agile" office concept at a time when, following the pandemic emergency, there has been an exponential growth of a process already underway in previous years, which sees a substantial change in the world of work. 

Today, companies share a common goal: to optimize human resources and work environments solely to achieve the pre-set business model with maximum efficiency.

Human resources are the heart of the corporate system and play a key role in achieving success, but the work environment radically affects workers' performance, often influencing productivity.

In recent years, technological and digital development has favored the emergence of new work models in which activities take place in non-traditional environments, far from company premises, such as smart working, home working, and coworking.

However, while coworking is a style of work that involves sharing open spaces, where various professionals work closely in common areas, smart working can be considered an "agile" work mode that implies the possibility of carrying out activities with whoever you want and wherever you want, in total flexibility and autonomy in organizing spaces and time.

Coworking and smart working are often closely related as if they were different employment contracts, but if we analyze the two English terms, the difference is clear: smart working is a mode of performing subordinate work, while coworking refers to the physical space where different coworkers interact.

In reality, the two worlds unite when smart workers decide to manage their work in a coworking space.

Home working, on the other hand, is a work mode coordinated in one's own home, less flexible than smart working, as it follows the daily company activity according to the same office hours. Furthermore, it is the employer's responsibility to provide the technological equipment to the employee: the only advantages are the reduction of stress in commuting and more time for managing private life, although in the long term, it has been found that the presence of small children and the poor suitability of private environments have brought out huge organizational difficulties, not to mention the sense of isolation away from contact with colleagues and greater control by the employer.

Two years after the health emergency, some studies have shown that people want to continue working remotely, and the reason is more than evident: smart working works, and company employees prefer to organize work times and places not confined within quantitative parameters but qualitative ones, in a broader perspective for achieving assigned goals

Therefore, we are witnessing a transformation of the concept of "office," which has ceased to be considered the physical place reached every day to work but is conceived, thanks to the complicity of the pandemic emergency, as a "virtual" place accessible anywhere in the world: in practice, the office itself follows the worker in their movements.

In particular, with the spread of "agile work," the orientation would be to offer employees the opportunity to work in locations other than the company's headquarters, distributed within a range not far from it or from private homes, and equipped with all the necessary technological benefits to achieve pre-set goals.

The advantages of Spacevox in relation to various "competitors"

In response to the increasingly growing need for remote workspaces, Spacevox is a service that connects people and companies online, between users and hosts, according to a business model similar to "AirBnB," facilitating the meeting between demand and supply.

App users are generally people who do not have an office but need a space, even for a few hours, to receive clients, work with teams, or carry out financial and administrative operations that require tranquility and concentration, or professionals traveling, or smart workers who cannot work at home.

While the hosts who rely on Spacevox are generally hotels, owners of vacant shops, spaces in shopping centers, or small unused rooms that require a conversion process for office use.

What are the advantages for those accessing the Spacevox service?

In general, thanks to the App, you can access a capillarity of research in the urban network and hinterland that allows optimizing movements with evident savings in time and travel costs, without forgetting the reduction of environmental pollution. Following this, you will have a comfortable room equipped with all the facilities necessary to work at the best performance.

But let's analyze the further advantages more in-depth in relation to the various "competitors" that offer work modules distant from the "agile" idea of a day office that Spacevox wants to propose.

Spacevox vs. office work

The traditional office will soon be a memory, more than ever companies are realizing that a rigid conception of workspace is counterproductive in an increasingly competitive business world and sensitive to technological innovations: the old offices where you are alone to fight against fixed and management costs no longer work.

Many companies feel inadequate regarding work environment strategies that limit the potential and operability of employees.

A service like Spacevox offers the alternative possibility of creating advantageous conditions for the use of flexible spaces outside the company headquarters, to favor productivity and creativity without too much weighing on bureaucratic burdens and expenses, paying only the office use time.

Spacevox vs. smart working in a traditional hotel space

When smart working is organized outside the private space because home environments are not manageable for work organization, or because there is a need to meet a client and plan briefings with the company team, meeting rooms or rooms to rent in hotels are sought.

to offer traditional services such as a suitable wifi network, environments equipped for videoconferences, versatility in furnishings, and all the necessary comforts to work properly.

However, what is sometimes lacking is flexibility in the management of rental hours: usually, spaces are offered according to a time range that is never less than a whole day or morning, even if the actual use will be limited to one or two hours.

Spacevox meets the needs of users who require a room for a limited time of a few hours, and this opportunity leads to considerable savings thanks to the Pay per use logic (pay based on use).

Spacevox vs home working

From working in the office every day, we have moved to working from home, and this has involved adapting the private environment to the needs of the business activity: the home office is born, a home office where you can best perform your tasks in compliance with the assigned work standards.

Home working certainly allows managing private life and work in balance, but it is not always so easy because sometimes environmental and stress situations are created where it is not possible to concentrate best at the expense of productivity.

Moreover, not all private environments are suitable for organizing video conferences due to network problems and often the presence of children, or for hosting meetings with clients, hence the need to use an external office that meets the temporary requests of the worker, at sustainable costs for the company.

Spacevox is among those services capable of solving such issues, thanks to a wide range of options in the catalog from which to choose the hourly office closest to home, avoiding time losses and causes of further stress in commuting.

Spacevox vs coworking

As we have already considered, coworking is a new way of considering the workspace that allows freelancers or company teams to have an operational station where they can carry out their activity and receive clients.

The particularity is given by sharing spaces with other professionals or business groups, while maintaining one's independence, all usually organized in large open spaces divided into many small offices, each equipped with a desk and suitable technological furnishings for working: this is very helpful for startups that cannot yet afford their company headquarters or for freelancers who often travel for work.

Using coworking spaces offers advantages not only economic for the contained costs but also of the opportunity for comparison between different professional realities, so much so that new collaborations often arise.

On the other hand, there may be logistical disadvantages, especially for those accustomed to working alone and in silence, and the bustling reality of coworking could generate distraction and inability to achieve daily goals.

With equal economic advantages and flexibility, Spacevox offers the possibility to work where you want and with whom you want, even alone, without being forced to share the office by the hour with strangers, this also in respect of privacy when delicate internal company issues must be dealt with.

Conclusion

Spacevox is a voice that wants to renew the concept of the office into a "smart," flexible, and easy solution: the workspace, in the conception of "day office," takes on new meanings, it is no longer a neutral container of activities, but is part of a change that evolves in sustainability and modernity.