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New rules spur a return to offices

End of work from home advice sees commuters flock back to London offices. The first Monday since work from home guidance was dropped has seen a huge increase in commuters pouring in to central London. Trains were reported as being ‘rammed’ ...

Top managerial skills that make you a great boss

Good management skills are key to a successful career regardless of your role within an organisation. Management skills are often discussed in the abstract, but what are they in reality? Broadly speaking, management skills can be defined ...

Community wellbeing with Happy Minds at Work

BE Offices continues to focus on the wellbeing of its client community with a lunchtime virtual Desk Meditation and Chair Yoga workshop. Hosted by Happy Minds at Work on Monday 24th January, BE Offices clients are invited to participate in ...

Stepping in to the New Year

BE Offices invites clients to start the year off right by signing up to the “Stick To It” Step Challenge! With community at the heart of all we do, we’ve invited our clients to sign up to a 3-week community challenge to help ease into healthy ...

London retains title as world’s leading destination for tech talent looking to relocate

Boston Consulting Group survey finds UK capital is still the world’s most attractive destination for relocating tech talent.

A survey by global management consultancy firm Boston Consulting Group has revealed that London has retained ...

Future-proof your business with a climate action strategy

In the wake of the recent COP26 (Conference of the Parties – the decision-making body of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change), it has never been more important for individuals and businesses alike to reduce their carbon emissions. ...

Celebrating International Men’s Day at BE Offices

The men at BE Offices, including our front of house concierge and security personnel, have given over 700 years of service to the company since it was founded in 1993. This International Men’s Day, 19th November 2021, we celebrate them ...

BE Offices shortlisted for ‘Service Innovation’ award

Flexible workspace provider announced as finalist for Flexible Space Association ‘Service Innovation’ award. BE Offices are delighted to have been recognised once again by the Flexible Space Association in their annual ...

Five workplace myths that impact motivation

Higher pay is not the only way to increased productivity and more motivated employees. Our work lives are impacted enormously by obvious and subtle ideas of the correct and incorrect ways to work. Many of these ideas are myths but this in no way ...

BE Offices shares climate action journey at London Business Week

Invited to speak at the event as a result of BE’s involvement in the Mayor of London’s Business Climate Challenge in Southwark, our CSR manager shared BE’s net zero journey with fellow SMEs. As climate action gains momentum ...

BE Offices partners with Planet Mark for sustainability workshop

Continuing our hybrid events programme, this week we ran a virtual sustainability workshop in partnership with Planet Mark, to learn more about what business can do to help address climate change. All businesses have a part to play in tackling ...

BE Offices celebrates its 10th Macmillan Coffee Morning

BE Offices, &Offices, Headspace and BE.Spoke clients help raise in excess of £1,300 for Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning 2021 marks a decade of involvement for BE Offices in the annual Macmillan World’s ...

London takes No. 2 spot among best places for start-ups to thrive

UK capital city ties in second place with New York among the top 140 international ecosystems for start-ups. London and New York are snapping at the heels of Silicon Valley as the best places for startups to prosper according to a report published ...

BE Offices shortlisted for Property Awards 2021 in health and wellbeing category

BE Offices is delighted to have been shortlisted for a new award in the annual Property Week Awards. Covid has shone a spotlight on health and wellbeing, so this new award aims to celebrate an organisation or individual that has done the most ...

What to expect when you return to the office

Office life changed exponentially during the pandemic so what should you expect when you return to the workplace? This week saw a flood of workers returning to offices with the Evening Standard reporting figures from Transport for London ...

Why we need to get back to the office (and it’s not for our employer)

After such a long time away from the office, we’ve become accustomed to our home-working routines and some of us would be happy to continue with this way of working, but is this isolation from our colleagues helping our wellbeing? Some ...

Manchester takes top spot as the UK’s most entrepreneurial city

In what was an extraordinarily challenging year for businesses, entrepreneurs the length and breadth of the UK fought back with a 59% increase in company registrations in 2020. Instant Offices have analysed Companies House data together ...

The importance of face-to-face communication

Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet have all been essential to us maintaining communication with our teams, colleagues and family over the last 16 months. But, whilst these platforms have certainly provided a lifeline, and will indeed ...

BE Cleaning Services achieve top safety accreditation

BE Offices’ in-house cleaning team has been awarded accreditation from Alcumus SafeContractor for achieving excellence in health and safety in the workplace. Alcumus SafeContractor is a leading third party accreditation scheme ...

BE Offices’ largest ever team supports the 2021 Great City Race

60 runners representing clients and staff from BE Offices, Headspace Group, BE.Spoke and &Offices take part in the Standard Chartered Great City Race. In what was BE Offices 14th consecutive year of participating in the Great City Race, ...

The evolution of the office as a place to work

As lockdown restrictions ease and people start to return to their offices we look at the evolution of the workplace. It’s easy to think of the office as a modern invention but the word ‘office’ derives from a coming together ...

City of london Corporation’s Culture Mile partners with BE Offices

BE Offices are providing free-of-charge office space to the City of London’s cultural district Culture Mile, this summer as part of the Lord Mayor’s Culture and Commerce Taskforce Create in the City initiative. Chaired by the Lord Mayor of ...

Is working from home working for your business?

Increasing numbers of businesses call time on working from home and recall their workers to offices. Apple, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs are among the many high profile businesses bringing their workers back to offices having ...

10 ways for your business to help improve air quality

Air quality is not just an environmental issue, but an important health issue which affects us all. Air pollution causes up to 36,000 deaths every day in the UK and has been recognised by the World Health Organisation and the UK Government ...

BE Offices partners with The Youth Group

BE Offices is delighted to announce its partnership with The Youth Group, a UK organisation which supports millions of young people across the world into meaningful employment opportunities by helping them gain new skills and by providing ...

How to keep on motivating your team during 2021 – and beyond

Navigating the challenges posed by COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic hasn’t been easy for anyone. So, continuing to keep your employees motivated during what remains of 2021 and into 2022 will be vital to achieving your organisation’s ...

Apple eyes workers back in the office by September

The tech giant is looking to a return to the office by September for employees according to an all-staff memo sent this week. In the memo, chief executive Tim Cook wrote that staff are expected to return to their desks for no fewer than three days ...

JP Morgan set to welcome staff back to the office in June

JP Morgan has informed UK staff that an increasing number of them will be required to return to the office from next month as restrictions start to ease. In a recent memo seen by Financial News, the global bank has advised staff that they should ...

BE Offices welcomes the RH Lord Mayor of London to its Barbican business centre

BE Offices were delighted to welcome the RH Lord Mayor of London, William Russell to their Barbican business centre this week as part of a series of events to mark the reopening of indoor hospitality, cultural and heritage institutions based  ...

Supporting staff as they return to the office

As we approach the next stage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown, more and more employees are returning to the office, and for some this could be anxiety-inducing. While many of us are only too glad to be reunited ...

5 indicators that you are a high performer…

…and that now is the time to push for promotion. You’ve been in the same role for years. Your job title hasn’t changed since you joined the company and there are no signs that your business card will be getting updated any time soon. You are well ...

BE Offices furthers commitment to net zero status

BE Offices has taken another step on its road to net zero status with 81% of its entire portfolio now powered by renewably sourced electricity. The company made a conscious decision as far back as 2018 to convert all centres, over which it has ...

How to celebrate Earth Day

Need some inspiration for eco-friendly ways to celebrate the environment either in the office or at home? Thursday 22nd April marks the 51st Earth Day and if there is one positive thing this pandemic has done, it is that it has brought many of ...

80% of employees say working from home has had a toll on their mental health

Millions of people continue to work from home as we further navigate our way safely out of the pandemic, but a study from Nuffield Health has revealed that 80 percent of the British workforce feel that working from home has had a detrimental effect ...

Zoom-free Fridays introduced by Citigroup CEO

Citigroup’s new CEO cites the ‘relentlessness of the pandemic workday’ as ‘simply not sustainable.’ Jane Fraser, the new CEO of international investment bank Citigroup has reportedly put a stop to video ...

Is the working from home tide turning?

KMPG survey suggests bosses are turning against home working. Today marks the end of the ‘stay at home’ messaging, with the lifting of some of the lockdown rules which have kept us housebound for so long.  For many it will mean a ...

BE Offices achieves gold Investors in People accreditation

BE Offices has been awarded the Investors in People ‘We invest in people, gold’ accreditation’ marking a decade of Investors in People recognition for the company. The multi-award-winning flexible workspace operator ...

London retains its ‘most desirable place to work’ title

London retains its ‘most desirable place to work’ title. International career locations survey reveals London’s third consecutive top spot. According to a survey compiled by an alliance of global recruitment companies, ...

CBRE report predicts long-term growth for Central London office space market

Despite talk of a new hybrid approach to office working/working from home, commercial real estate specialists CBRE predict sustained future growth. One of the most dramatic outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the way in which we work, ...

What you might not know about International Women’s Day

As we celebrate the ladies of BE Offices, &Offices, Headspace Group, &Meetings and Auriel Property Management, we check out some perhaps little-known facts about International Women’s Day. International Women’s ...

Canary Wharf boss says people are ‘tired of working from home’

A boss at Britain’s largest office and retail complex declares working from home has led to people feeling ‘fatigued’ resulting in an eagerness to return to the office. Head of strategy at Canary Wharf Group’s head ...

Work from home is not the ‘new normal’ says Goldman Sachs boss

Banking chief rejects remote working as the ‘new normal’, instead labelling it an ‘aberration’. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has said the international investment bank has been operating with “less than 10%

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Is remote working inducing ‘prudent’ paranoia?

With the UK’s workforce still restricted to virtual communication only, are some of us feeling anxious about our interactions with colleagues? It is estimated that around half of the UK’s workforce are currently working from ...

The future of work

The past year has undoubtedly reshaped our working habits exponentially, but what is the future of work? We are fast approaching the first anniversary of the UK 2020 lockdown, but with the vaccine rollout well underway, people are beginning ...

BE Offices offers tutoring support to clients struggling with home schooling

BE Offices today announces its support for clients who are struggling with the pressures of home schooling. BE is offering clients of all its brands, BE Offices, Headspace, BE.Spoke and &Offices, access to experienced primary and secondary ...

Top tips for rebalancing your work/life equilibrium

The lines between your professional and personal life were crossed, broken down and trampled all over with the March 2020 work from home edict. Ten months on we are still working from home and many of us have given up trying to distinguish between

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Boost your immune system this winter

Food, and what we consume on a daily basis, has far-reaching benefits for our health, one of which is to bolster and support our immune system. While there are a million supplements and products out there, all of which claim to strengthen and ...

Could faking your commute be the key to a healthier, happier you?

Scientists say this one quick fix can segment our day to create natural work/life boundaries. Back in March 2020, none of us could have imagined that we would still be confined to remote working 10 months on from the ‘work from home’ ...

How to motivate your employees for 2021

Navigating the challenges posed by Covid-19 throughout 2020 hasn’t been easy for anyone, so successfully motivating your employees for the new year is the key to achieving goals and targets in 2021. Research shows motivated employees ...

The businesses that bossed 2020

We meet the companies who adapted to the challenges of 2020 and flourished. Most of us are more than happy to say goodbye and good riddance to 2020, but there are entrepreneurs who created new businesses or turned their businesses around to meet ...

BE Offices, &Offices, BE.Spoke and Headspace clients join in virtual festive fun

Our 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways goes down a treat with clients. With in-person Christmas parties off the agenda, we didn’t want our clients to miss out on end-of-year festivities so decided to end our much acclaimed 2020 virtual events ...

The best Secret Santa gifts for your colleagues

We’ve got the whole company covered. Try our list of perfect presents for everyone on your team.   Graphic Designer – Personalised notebook Creatives never know when their next wave of inspiration might hit, so it’s important to arm them ...

Maintaining client community in a virtual world

Life as we knew it took an unprecedented turn in March, resulting in unfamiliar challenges surrounding almost every aspect of our daily lives. One of the most significant struggles was staying socially connected with face-to-face contact ...

BE Offices achieves Best Places to Work in Property status for 4th consecutive year

BE Offices announces that it has once again been recognised by Property Week, the leading real estate industry publication, as one of the best places to work in property. For the fourth consecutive year BE has been selected as one of only 28 real ...

How to stay motivated at work this winter

Find your get-up-and-go in a low-tempo season. Don’t leave your energy levels in the dark as the nights draw in.   Wake up early It may seem like the most difficult thing to do on a cold morning, but setting an earlier alarm will mean you’re ...

The good side of working in the office

Remote working has impacted every business and its employees. We remind ourselves of the positive aspects of working in the office and what we have to look forward to when we return.     Collaboration A lack of collaboration when ...

Celebrating International Men’s Day with the boys of BE

Men are in a minority at BE Offices but between all of them, including our front of house security guys, they have over 692 years of service to the company, spanning over a quarter of a century. Today we celebrate them all and thank them for their ...

What business leaders can learn from the Great British Bake Off

The Great British Bake Off is much more than mouth watering entertainment. Every episode is a lesson in diligence and complex management skills. Season 11 of the 2020 Great British Bake Off will reach boiling point next week when the final airs ...

What superhero would make the best colleague?

With Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D returning for its final series on 13 November we ponder the question: Which caped crusader would make the best co-worker? Join us as we critique superhero CVs…   Spider-Man Spidey would make a great ...

Staying positive and motivated in a second lockdown

7 top tips on how to stay motivated and positive as we enter lockdown: the sequel. It feels a bit like Groundhog Day as we start a second lockdown. We were spoiled with the weather throughout the last one, making an enormous difference to our outlook, ...