While remote working is easier than ever, working from home or the nearest Starbucks can quickly lose its appeal. Enter Desk Space Genie, a new website that advertises vacant desk space. The service helps businesses make a bit of money from their unused office space and enables cash-strapped freelancers or other small businesses to become more established.
Desk Space Genie lets space-seeking ‘deskers’ search for a space by postal code or town, contacting the advertisers directly. The site lists vacancies in most major cities around the UK, covering 'all inclusive' desk packages with wifi and other utilities, or more basic 'pay for what you use' services. The site is free to use until 1 May 2009.
Although plenty of general-use classified websites list office space for rent, Desk Space Genie is the first we’ve spotted that’s targeting this niche. Helping others save money and resources, it seems like a timely endeavour. One to create for deskers and desklords in your part of the world? (Related: Being space for mobile warriors.)
Website: www.deskspacegenie.co.uk
Contact: help@deskspacegenie.co.uk
Spotted by: Philip Hampton
Great idea, they are not the first in the UK to be doing this though, see: www.wantdontwantspace.com which I stumbled upon a while back....
this has been around for years in the UK so not sure why this is included.
site is free until May? I don't understand how you could charge for this service as there are lots of other competitor sites that are free.
A new one we've just launched covers the whole marketplace of space spare - http://spacespare.com
I've wondered about something like this. I think in most U.S. cities there is a huge surplus of commercial space, and something like this could be used to sop some of that up. http://www.ameripromo.com
Useful info for someone who is thinking of working freelance and can't afford an office - good websites in the comments too.
I am not sure that there are many companies offering this service in the North West, or rather Lancashire. Thanks for the useful websites so I can look though.
http://www.b1.co.uk
This is a superb idea, particularly for small business and sole traders. I have had a number of clients for whom this service would have saved them a lot of time, stress and money when they were looking for premises for a short period of time. For start up businesses in particular, the flexibility to rent only what they need on a short term contract is the kind of detail that can make or break a fledgeling business. I just hope that Desk Space Genie manages to expand its network across the whole of the UK.
People in Denmark, can place an office-rent-out ad at www.lej-eller-laan.dk