Built-to-Fit: Leveraging Coworking Space for Larger Teams

With built-to-fit solutions for enterprise teams, coworking offers an elevated solution for businesses that need flexible, scalable workspace. Here’s why.

In the modern world of work, we often associate coworking with freelancers and cramped hotdesking scenarios – but there is another way forward that addresses the needs of enterprises with larger teams. Also known as enterprise coworking, built-to-fit coworking refers to  a flexible workspace that offers a truly bespoke design solution for teams of 20 or more. This is coworking, elevated: it’s a cut above the private office in a coworking environment. Let’s take a closer look.

What are built-to-fit workspaces?

Built-to-fit workspaces are purposefully designed offices within the context of the coworking environment. At The Great Room, these bespoke offices are meticulously crafted to cater to the unique needs of larger teams. Unlike conventional offices with fixed layouts and structures, built-to-fit coworking offers fully inclusive, collaborative and cost-effective workspaces for teams of 20 or more.

With built-to-fit, you get to decide what your business needs in order to activate your business strategies. With the help of our in-house design team and award-winning design partners, we then deliver an end-to-end solution that’s tailored to your specifications, so your business can thrive.

Built-to-fit: The pros

• 1. Flexibility

With built-to-fit, you get a scalable solution that supports rapidly changing economic environments. Here is a solution that caters to growing teams, minus the constraints of long-term leases and costly, time-consuming office migrations. Whether you’re growing your team or streamlining it, adapting your space is a seamless experience; one that’s managed in partnership with The Great Room.

• 2. Cost effective

With tailor-made space comes tailor-made pricing. In the built-to-fit workspace, you only pay for the real estate you need, for the length of time you choose. Contrast this with traditional office spaces, where organisations are bound by inflexible leasing commitments, while also paying for utilities, maintenance and furniture. With built-to-fit, enterprises get a premium office experience for their larger teams, with utilities, maintenance and furniture sorted for you. These aren’t additional costs to factor in, and there are no massive capital outlays: it’s all part of the deal.

• 3. Amenities

Which brings us to amenities. With The Great Room’s built-to-fit solutions, you get access to services designed to meet the needs of your business in a way that’s thoughtful, functional and innovative. At The Great Room, amenities include high-speed Wi-fi and the latest technology; luxuriously appointed meeting rooms; comfortable, contemporary furnishings; a well-stocked pantry; barista-level coffee; and premium hospitality services such as Monday Breakfast Club, shifting those Monday blues with delicious breakfast and coffee; Turndown Cart, with personally delivered hot chocolate and cookies; Great Thirstdays, where members get to taste fine wines and spirits; and more.

Nursing rooms, podcast rooms and executive offices are also part of the equation. Plus, with built-to-fit, you get to bring your branding into the picture in the form of everything from signage and wayfinding to entrance walls.

• 4. Bespoke fit-outs

Alongside brand signage, built-to-fit spaces give you the capacity to create a custom-built space that’s tailored to your brand identity. At The Great Room, our design partners will work with you from the start to create a look that’s on-brand, along with layout and functionality to suit your brand’s needs.

With built-to-fit, gone are the days of sterile offices and stuffy cubicles. Our designers are experts in hospitality design, bring five-star style to each space they create, and they know how to shape superior environments using top-quality infrastructure and design.

• 5. Location, location

One of the benefits of coworking environments is their prime city locations. The Great Room, for example, has seven workspaces in key cities across APAC—namely, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney. They’re easy to access via public transport, they’re close to shops and F&B, and within reach of clients, teams and stakeholders across the region.

• 6. Security and credibility

For growing enterprises, data security matters. That’s why The Great Room’s built-to-fit workspaces come with their own server rooms. For extra credibility with investors, clients and business partners, they even have their own private entrances. This sets the built-to-fit space apart from the private office, which shares an entrance and server with the rest of the coworking space.

Plus, to support financial institutions, The Great Room’s built-to-fit spaces are MAS-regulated, meeting industry institutional requirements.

Is built-to-fit right for your business?

Transitioning to a built-to-fit coworking model warrants careful consideration. It’s important to evaluate your business strategies, your team’s needs, growth prospects and company culture before making the shift.

All the same, the advantages of flexible workspace, cost-efficiency, amenities and design tend to outweigh the drawbacks. By fostering collaboration and innovation and facilitating cost savings, built-to-fit spaces present a highly credible and highly appealing alternative to traditional offices. If you’re ready to take a transformative approach to office space—one that sets the stage for business success—we’d love to connect with you. Select your city below to learn more. 

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