WorkPlace Plus expands virtual office solutions to support entrepreneurs

 WorkPlace Plus Limited, operators of Regus Franchise in West Africa and providers of serviced office spaces has reiterated its resolve to promote business initiatives in the country by offering wide range of business support to emerging entrepreneurs.

Ayo Akinmade, executive chairman of the Company speaking on the Company’s plans to expand its presence in the West Africa sub-region said the current economic situation in the country has posed serious challenge to entrepreneurs and as such running a formidable and profitable business in Nigeria is becoming difficult.

WorkPlace Plus Limited he said is the operators of the Regus franchise in West Africa which provides serviced office spaces, and a host of other office solutions to global and local businesses.

The company he explained was formed about a decade ago and the objective at the time was to approach Regus, a world leader in virtual offices about a franchise for West Africa.

“We needed an entity for this venture so we set up WorkPlace Plus and secured the Regus franchise for West Africa and have since been in the business of developing virtual offices in Nigeria and Ghana.

Our clients range from the startups to fortune 500 multinationals, and WorkPlace plus is ideal for someone who is at home with a great business idea and needs a professional place to operate from. We also cater to our clients in different ways. For example, we have what we call virtual products, which is a telephone answering service where we would give you a phone line, answer the phone professionally, take your messages and relay your messages to you”.

Speaking further, he said operators of businesses can also decide to combine that option with mail handling, and this would involve the firm to hand clients physical mail, which will be kept for and redirected to clients when necessary or a client could elect to rent office space, combined with the two services and only use it when necessary.

On advantages of the initiative, Akinmade, said business operators are exposed to professional environment, as they will have access to other multinationals and great businesses that are already in the cluster.

“In this cluster alone, we have about 38 different businesses, that is potentially 38 different business opportunities for our clients to take advantage of the services.

We also have corporate rates with hotels which our customers can take advantage of which are lower than their usual rates since we bring a significant volume. Same thing for car hire and we also provide airport meet and greet for clients coming into the country.

Akinmade, however lamented the recession in the economy which is generic to everyone currently doing business in Nigeria.