{"id":735,"date":"2009-08-25T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T22:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2022-08-17T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T21:05:18","slug":"office-in-a-box-gives-uk-entrepreneurs-their-own-business-space-for-just-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/office-in-a-box-gives-uk-entrepreneurs-their-own-business-space-for-just-10\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Office-in-a-box&#8217; gives UK entrepreneurs their own business space for just \u00a310"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting article I found over at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1209100\/Office-box-WH-Smith-gives-entrepreneurs-business-space-just-10.html\">Daily Mail:<\/a> a company in the UK, WH Smith, is offering business owners or budding entrepreneurs a little slice of the office life (complete with coffee) for a reduced rate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Budding entrepreneurs used to turn to WH Smith for pens and pencils &#8211; now they can pick up a whole &#8216;office-in-a-box&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Just \u00a310 will buy them office space for half a day, with internet access and coffee thrown in.<\/p>\n<p>The voucher scheme also offers a number of costlier options which include a personal assistant and meeting rooms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At roughly $16 US at the time of this writing, I feel like this is a scheme that could easily catch on in the US. Even working from home, I have found times when it would be beneficial to have an office space just for working, without the home-based distractions I can see every time I look over my shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>This could also be the jump-start many people need to test out new office-based ideas before jumping in whole-hog and renting out space. Overall, a really neat innovation that I hope catches on stateside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company in the UK, WH Smith, is offering business owners or budding entrepreneurs a little slice of the office life (complete with coffee) for a reduced rate: about $16 US for half a day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,29,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customize-personalize","category-efficiency","category-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7352,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/7352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ontimesupplies.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}