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Sales Rain Aquires New Office Space in Puerto Princesa, Palawan

Palawan Island, “The Last Ecological Frontier of the Philippines,” is an emerald archipelago specifically located in the Mimaropa region, with Puerto Princesa as the province capital. This paradise is famous for its picturesque beaches all across Southeast Asia and tops as one of the best vacation places to visit in Manila,  boasting a diverse plant and wildlife ecology surrounded by turquoise waters. With several subterranean rivers, white beaches, twin lagoons, swimming holes, 1,780 islands, and UNESCO World Heritage Sites, this slice of heaven is definitely a noteworthy travel destination.

The coastal city of Puerto Princesa is a highly urbanized arrival hub in the midsection of Palawan. As the center of trade and commerce, the area is currently being scouted by several call center service providers as a viable site option. Consequently, the recent contract expiration of a major BPO company’s five-year exclusivity agreement with the city has opened doors for other major industry players to explore the region’s talents and workspace resources.

This 2022, Sales Rain has acquired a new office location in Puerto Princesa as part of its aggressive expansion plans in the western provinces. The higher management was impressed with the local talents and the available office infrastructures within the city, making the decision to invest in Palawan an uncomplicated move. With the company’s strong commitment to providing top-notch seat leasing services and flexible rates, the forthcoming Sales Rain office located on the ground floor of Robinsons Place Palawan will boost the region’s economy by creating more jobs and opportunities on the island.

To support the city’s initiative in welcoming more call center and outsourcing industry investors, the Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) has included Puerto Princesa in the nationwide list of “Digital Cities” compiled by their group to identify BPO-ready localities. Sales Rain’s 14th office in Palawan is currently under construction and will be launched in August 2022.

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Sales Rain Announces the Launch of its Redesigned Makati Office

Sales Rain’s first-ever site in Manila at 107 L.P. Leviste Street, Makati City, is donning a redesigned office layout. As a leader in the commercial real estate industry, timely renovations of office build-outs are frequent projects of workspace service providers. These measures are meant to promote efficient workspace solutions that directly impact client satisfaction and employee productivity.

The Peak is a PEZA registered building that still stands as an ideal office location for entrepreneurs and startups due to its close proximity to the Makati central business district. This modern office facility was Sales Rain’s first acquisition in the Philippines way back in 2010. It is conveniently located along nearby shopping malls, hotels, banks, schools, parks, museums, and embassies that are easily accessible via public transportation.

Sales Rain’s newly redesigned Makati site is a company-owned penthouse office spanning 305 sq ft in gross floor area with a view from strategically placed windows that provide natural lighting for clients’ visual comfort. The Peak Tower exudes premium building access through a private entrance that leads to a dedicated reception area. This professionally managed serviced office comprises 60 fully adaptable seats ideal for call center seat leasing, private office, or semi-private office. It also offers 2 Manager’s office that displays a professional ambiance with the necessary tables and chairs. It also comes with a meeting room, server room, and restroom. Moreover, this facility is equipped with reliable air conditioning units plus a fast internet connection for uninterrupted 24/7 business operations.

With the launch of its redesigned Makati site, the company continues to offer fully fitted workspace solutions that complement business requirements and operational processes. Moreover, being able to extend the most aggressive pricing for many types of office services makes Sales Rain the best option for entrepreneurs who are looking for work environments that are cost-effective, move-in ready, and come with complete amenities within the area.

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Plug and Play Workspace: Startups Made Easier with Seat Leasing

Business is a gamble.

Placing your faith in the implementation of an idea – that you most likely formed through a drunken conversation with your friends – and hoping that it’ll put food in your stomach and a roof over your head, is a gamble.

But there’s just something exhilarating and noble in starting something from scratch.

There’s the excitement of creating a to-do list; building revenue models, marketing languages and the technologies needed for it to work. Endless hours would be spent on how this idea would be implemented, how it would work and how it would be advantageous to everyone. But as discussions move to more concrete details and as challenges start to show up, the excitement grows weaker.

Things get harder and harder as you and your team make sure that the idea doesn’t die.

More and more concerns would arise and you would find yourself wondering why you ever thought this was going to work, yet you’d remind yourself of the potential benefits it could give and hold on to that enthusiasm you first had.

With so much frustration, you toil through the least exciting parts of the project. This phase is a necessary evil to break away from half-baked plans – it’s the final chance of getting something done and ensuring that there’s a tangible result to all of our efforts.

And now that you’ve covered the basics, it’s time to get the ball rolling.

Kickstarting and Startups Made Easier

Though establishing a business isn’t easy, a significant growth among startups have been observed in the last couple of years. Teams of all kinds, sizes and specializations manage to become fully operational despite having low resources and even manpower.

Operating a startup is now made easier with the advancements in technology and the flexible office solutions offered today. In addition to this, outsourcing firms have dominated the industry. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms offer back office outsourcing, internal business functions as well as office space solutions – all of which provide a helping hand to those who want to start a brand new site or bootstrap their first enterprise.

The most known service offered by outsourcing firms is its office space solutions widely known as Seat Leasing.

Mixing the functionality of traditional office with the versatility of flexible workspaces, Seat Leasing equip startups with capacious workspaces inclusive of quality computers, reliable internet connection and other necessary facilities for operations to run smoothly. It allows its clients to lease the number of seats they need, exactly when they need it with their ‘plug-and-play’ facilities.

Seat Leasing give startups numerous advantages other else than competitive offices at an affordable rate.

One advantage that attracts most young entrepreneurs to opt for seat leasing services is the time it saves them from dealing with legal papers and permits needed to establish a startups’ first office. In addition to this, it also lessens waste on expenses from unused office space. A client can lease one seat for the first 6 months and expand to leasing a whole floor.

Most seat leasing providers can also be found in major cities of the country like Mandaluyong, Ortigas, Makati and Quezon City – making businesses more accessible to clients and employees as well.

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Modern Trends in Manila’s Top Call Center Serviced Offices

COVID19 pandemic has caused a tremendous impact on the traditional work environment and raised a significant need to implement alternative arrangements in catering to today’s new set of requirements. Because of the challenges presented by travel and mobility restrictions, global leaders have been innovating workable solutions to keep operations running without sacrificing the safety of their members.

And as the pandemic situation improves and businesses transition to the new normal, it is without a doubt that we need more flexibility in workspaces.

Several months after the nationwide lockdown, many startup enterprises and call center companies have switched to serviced offices. With efforts to sustain business productivity amidst a global pandemic, companies are now looking for versatility and affordability among office spaces.

The Emerging Modern Trends

The current health crisis has changed the previous workplace trends, and many new ones have surfaced as we strive to stay competitive in today’s time. Let us take a look at these emerging modern trends in the country’s top call center serviced offices:

Smart Offices

It is no surprise that transforming your office into a smart one can make a world of difference in the post-COVID era. As the current health situation continues to present uncertainties, many people have become more dependent on artificial intelligence and technology that reduces the risk of infection in the workplace.

During the pandemic, the work environment has been classified as one of the high-risk areas to spread the COVID19 virus because of the high volume face-to-face interactions and frequently touched surfaces. With this, many serviced offices have considered ‘touchless technology’ as an essential tool in keeping their facilities safe and secured at all times. Several providers have started installing modern trends such as sensor devices, automated entry systems, and security controls. Moreover, touchless temperature and ID scanners, disinfecting stations, voice command machines, and lighting fixtures have contributed significantly to a healthier and more productive place of work where employees can perform their tasks safer and faster. In a smart office space where almost everything is accessible, not only will you be able to perform better, but it can also make your work management easier.

Health and Well-being

During the early months of the pandemic, serviced office providers have doubled their efforts in creating a healthy place of work to secure safety among its members and comply with government guidelines. They began to place disinfecting stations inside and outside of its premises while implementing proper working procedures. Not only that, they have strengthened their protocols to ensure the required distance between employees to lower health risks.

Today, as the COVID19 situation improves, many of these providers are investing more in improving their workspaces – from redesigning space layout to promoting productivity through a wide range of amenities. Fully-serviced environments that are complete with proper air ventilation, natural sunlight, breakout rooms, and even applying biophilic office designs can help boost members’ well-being.

Multi-functional Work Areas

As businesses began to see that achieving optimal performance from their members requires distinct parameters, providing them with varieties of modern trends in working environments has become their top priority. For a company to grow and remain competitive, employees have to be satisfied with the kind of workspace they come into every single day. With this in mind, various space providers have been utilizing their existing facilities to develop more versatile work areas for different activities such as project meetings, company events, training, and even relaxation like pantry areas or cafe lounges.

Our traditional way of working will continue to change and evolve as we navigate the post-COVID19 era. Let us help you find the perfect fit for your requirements by getting in touch with us!

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Sales Rain’s Second BGC Office in Taguig City is Now Operational

Following the news of its expansion in BGC last June, Sales Rain is proud to announce that its fully enhanced 1,027.10 square meters of leasable area is now operational and ready to serve multifaceted companies from various industries.

The company recently acquired Inoza Tower’s 15th floor with the intent of developing new infrastructures built to provide functional spaces ranging from seat leasing, private offices, shared desks, and meeting areas. The aforementioned office level has easy access to several food establishments, malls, banks, and 24/7 convenience stores, making it more favorable for its members to accomplish daily errands. Moreover, its recent expansion in BGC aims to present growth opportunities for numerous Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies and startup businesses to operate in one of the country’s leading business districts and, through flexible office plans,  achieve beneficial outcomes in the most cost-efficient ways.

Sales Rain’s newest procurement is now completely operational with over 250 workstations and a wide variety of workspaces such as conference halls, interview rooms, and training facilities designed to foster team collaboration and achieve maximum productivity. Furthermore, the entire fully furnished floor comes equipped with sleeping quarters, shower spaces, comfort rooms, locker, and storage rooms to bring forth additional amenities in pursuance of extended comfort and accessibility to its members.

Sales Rain continues to offer adaptable workspaces with the same vision of helping companies and even freelancers reach success by providing safe working environments that are both flexible and penny-wise. Its consistent effort to demonstrate innovative solutions paved the way for further expansion and improvement of its offices that are established to cater today’s modern industries. The company’s brand new office floor will continue to house multinational organizations with its all-inclusive and affordable office plans, workable lease agreements, and dedicated support to help businesses thrive amid the current circumstances.

Known for its premier seat leasing services and game-changing business solutions, Sales Rain is a renowned provider of world-class offices in prime business districts of the Philippines. Our services are designed to be the perfect strategic tool for you and your business. Rethink your way of working with us and book a tour today!

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The Ideal Alternative: How Seat Leasing Benefits BPO Call Centers

Today, the BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) sector is among the fastest-growing and most successful industries in the country, and it is said to be the powerful force that drives the Philippine economy. The BPO industry has contributed largely to employment generation, export growth, the rise of telecommunication businesses, and even real estate developments.

And as call centers expand nationwide, there is even greater demand for commercial infrastructures such as offices and multifunctional workspaces.

You are probably wondering why Seat Leasing has dominated the local and international BPO sector for many years.

This arrangement is favorable among call center companies as it offers various innovative business and office space solutions that are both cost-effective and functional. Typically, it comes complete with fully furnished offices equipped with workstations, computers, maintenance, admin & IT support, even outsourcing services, and the list goes on. These long-standing requirements that a traditional working environment could not offer are now made more flexible and affordable with seat leasing.

Now, what makes Seat leasing beneficial for BPO Call Centers?

BENEFITS

Cost-Effectiveness

Many businesses often have a hard time setting up an office because of the upfront capital needed for construction, furnishing, IT Equipment, and many other operational expenses. When companies lease or purchase an office, receiving separate monthly bills for utilities, electricity, and water apart from the actual rental payment can make it even more inconvenient. Not only that, registering a business takes time and presents a huge amount of paperwork.

Seat leasing serves a great alternative for all types of businesses and sizes, whether it’s a startup BPO that has a limited budget in building their own office or an established call center company that cannot afford to wait several months for a business expansion. Seat providers usually offer fully furnished workspaces saving them from the need to buy their own equipment. Moreover, they have the freedom to lease only the number of seats for as long as they need and start their operations immediately without worrying about the amenities.

Flexibility

Seat Leasing offers customizable lease agreements that are entirely based on clients’ specific needs and personal preferences. From specifying the length of commitment, identifying working hours, designing office layout, and choosing which services to procure, all these requirements are possible with leasing seats than renting a traditional space.

Even more so, BPO call center companies can maximize their business efficiency and productivity as most seat leasing providers operate 24 hours a day and are often accessible during weekends, even holidays. With this type of arrangement, they can worry less about expanding their business as scalability is one of seat leasing’s core offerings.

Variety of Workspaces

It does not end with flexible lease term agreements and plug-and-play offices. Seat leasing deals offer not only the workstations, partitions, and basic equipment a call center agent needs but also a wide array of amenities ranging from shared desks, enclosed offices, conference rooms, business lounges, and conventional areas where agents can work according to their needs.

Complete Package

Most BPO call center companies benefit from seat leasing because it offers all-inclusive and ready-to-use deals obliterating the inconvenience and lengthy process of establishing an office of their own. From fully functioning offices equipped with high-end PCs, reliable internet connection, call center software, and VoIP solutions to well-ventilated workspaces, clients can start their operations smoothly. This setup also allows the team to work uninterrupted and achieve maximum productivity.

Moreover, call center work can sometimes be tiresome but granting companies with quality workspace design, top-notch furnishings, and a variety of spaces can lead to a more productive atmosphere. Seat leasing has become a global trend because most providers invest in the overall health and well-being of its members through the kind of working environment they offer.

Those days of spending too much time and money to put up an office are long gone. Today, seat leasing is considered as a viable option for every business and, most importantly, for BPO call center companies who require versatility over luxury. With readily available furnished workspaces and cost-efficient rates, they can focus more on the core processes of their business and alot their time in the improvement of their operations at ease, knowing that everything is running according to plan.

Conclusively, seat leasing does not simply serve as an ideal alternative to traditional office spaces, it also opens doors for startups to thrive and launch their business amidst a highly-competitive market.

If you want to learn more about seat leasing services, get in touch with us today!

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The Essentials To a Healthy Workforce: The Overlooked Fundamentals

The physical and psychological health of today’s workforce is endangered as workplace stress creates an even higher toll on employees overall well-being. Affecting productivity and driving up voluntary turnover, the phenomenon has cost US employers nearly $200 billion yearly in healthcare coverage. And as a response, several companies come up with their own solution to alleviate the pressing predicament. From encouraging sleep and meditation through nap pods down to healthy snack bars, quirky perks can be found in almost every modern workplace today.

Yet amidst all of the clout and other activity going on, we have easily overlooked the fundamental factor that contributes to workplace stress: work environment – starting with the work itself. For years, researchers have advertised the benefits of better work practices for performance and productivity, enumerating two critical contributors to employee engagement: job control and social support. Moreover, it helps further enhance health – potentially reducing healthcare costs.

Companies from almost any industry can make use of the aforementioned elements to promote physical and mental well-being without breaking the bank.

Job Control

Research dating back decades have revealed that the autonomy employees have over what they do and how they do it plays a significant role on their physical health. Recent studies have also indicated that having limited job control creates ill effects that extend beyond physiological well-being, it actually imposes burden on a person’s mental health. Organizations can prevent these workforce dangers by creating positions or roles that have more fluidity and autonomy or by eradicating micromanagement.

Physical and Mental Health

British epidemiologist Michael Marmot and his team lead one of the most notable studies in the area popularly known as the Whitehall Studies. Together, they discovered that the higher an employee’s rank is, the lower their morality is to cardiovascular diseases. As it turns out, differences in job control correlating to job ranks is most accountable for the said phenomenon. Higher-ranked employees who enjoyed more autonomy over their jobs and had more discretion over what they do despite having greater demands.

Additional data connected work stress to the presence of metabolic syndromes – clusters of risk factors that predict the likelihood of getting heart diseases and type 2 diabetes. Employees who go through chronic stress at work are more likely to experience metabolic syndromes compared to those who don’t undergo work stress.

A separate study have also discovered a correlation between measures of job control and healthy. People who had a higher level of power over task control in reorganization processes had less illness symptoms for 11 out of 12 health indicators, less absences and less experiences of depression.

Control Over Workforce Surroundings

Control over work is just one part of the broad – and growing – culture of autonomy. Architectural and design firm Gensler said in its 2013 Workplace Survey that another form of liberation that creates not just an increased happiness, but as well as elevated employee motivation and performance, is the power of choice over their surroundings. One example of this is Facebook’s headquarters; their employees can tailor the layout, height, and configuration of their desks based on their respective preferences. Teams can also create whatever plan best supports their project by moving their desks.

Admittedly this element isn’t easy to achieve but there are ways for companies to offer their employees a wider range of options like providing them with passes to coworking spaces. These unorthodox offices offer its member different work environments depending on their needs or personal preferences. It’s a cost-efficient way of giving your team more choices on how they work. They can share desks with other professionals or get a private office of their own.

With so much light being put on the health of one’s workforce, we’re easily distracted by what we think is important – forgetting that there are certain essentials needed to be covered first.

Talk to us today and we can help you elevate your teams overall well-being through autonomy.

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Our Eastwood office offers you a wide variety of workspaces ranging from shared desks, enclosed offices, semi-private offices, and furnished seat leasing facilities – each one includes all the essentials needed for a productive workday.

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A Golden Opportunity: Meeting Rooms in Coworking Spaces

On a normal basis, large gatherings and conferences are usually held in meeting rooms within high-end hotel rooms but in the presence of serviced offices, this tradition is slowly being disrupted.

Other than being a coworking space’s most profitable asset, they also represent a large opportunity for growth, industry experts say. Shared workplaces with rooms that can accommodate groups of 20-40 people can host corporate training meetings, according to Alliance Network’s chairman and founder, Frank Cottle

Providers are missing out on a great opportunity sitting right in front of themselves. By offering a cost efficient and much more appropriate alternative to hotel meetings, they are benefitting from the growing corporate mandate of innovation and sustained education.

Demand Catalysts

The increasing frequency of trainings and meeting plays a significant role in the thriving need for conference venues and event spaces. As the accelerating competition in the industry calls for continuous teaching and learning, it opened up a new untapped market for serviced offices.

Though seen as an important feature in an enterprise’s headquarters, large meeting rooms are one of the most expensive amenities to build and maintain. To make matters worse, they are also the least utilized. Corporations want to clear themselves of the burden of these big rooms since they are used at least once a month only. And with its usage averaging from once a quarter or twice a year, it makes sense that a majority of businesses simply want to settle with outsourcing the aforementioned space.

Presenting a new contingency for flexible workplaces.

Opportunity in Meeting Rooms

According to experts, meeting rooms are actually the most profitable rooms in a coworking space or serviced office. Its revenue can be up to three times per square foot of a permanent workplace. Hence, it’s worthwhile for operators to offer their conference rooms to large groups.

More than just providing additional earnings, having medium sized meeting rooms improves space utilization. The average occupancy rate of these functions in coworking spaces are 35 to 40% — with ample room for growth.

Advantages Over Hotels

Using location, features and other additional amenities as its leverage, coworking as well as other serviced offices carry the versatility to serve the aforementioned marketplace. Providers offer numerous advantages compared to hotels in terms of meeting rooms

• Natural Light

Cited as a major contributor to worker productivity and satisfaction, modern day offices are curated to incorporate natural daylight into the environment and since hotels are traditionally designed to maximize sunlight in bedrooms, conference halls are often found in poorly lit locations such as the basement.

• Concentrated Services

Shared offices and other business centers create a very different experience for both the enterprise who booked the space and those who are attending compared to hotels. Operators may have dedicated customer service representatives overseeing the venues unlike the former whose focus is on renting rooms and large-scale catered events.

• Easier Reservations and Smaller Headcounts

Reservation is made much easier in coworking spaces due to its cost-efficient fixed costs. These flexible workspaces are agile enough to accommodate small to large groups of people in an economical fashion. Moreover, unlike hotels that require large minimums, shared offices is able to host events in smaller numbers – saving you from expensive overhead costs.