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Regus Express to open at Sandbach South motorway services

Drop-in business lounge and meeting rooms planned for ever-more flexible workforce

Regus, the global workspace provider with business centres across the North West, is planning to open one of its innovative Regus Express locations at Roadchef’s Sandbach South motorway services on the M6, designed to cater for the growing needs of mobile workers, local home-based professionals and business travellers.

The drop-in business centre, which will open later this year, will feature a professional business lounge with dedicated workstations (Thinkpods), comfy seats with laptop stands, phone chargers and wifi – plus high-specification meeting rooms available by the hour.

It is expected that local business people will use the centre as a ‘third place’ – somewhere to co-work productively outside of a traditional office environment - or to hold meetings at the convenient roadside location.

A Regus Express centre is also opening at Roadchef’s Norton Canes services on the M6 Toll in Staffordshire.

Through a variety of partnerships, Regus is rolling out a series of ‘Express’ locations across the country, not only in motorway service areas but also airports and retail environments, for instance at Broughton Shopping Park near Chester.

Phil Kemp, Global Managing Director of Regus Third Place said: “Bringing the Regus Express network to the M6 is an exciting development for us, and one which reflects rapidly evolving world of work. Attitudes towards the ‘office’ are changing dramatically.

“Regus Express is popular with people travelling on business and sales teams, but also with the rising number of flexible workers. Flexibility in work location is gathering further momentum following the introduction of new regulations which give all employees the legal right to request flexible working.[1]

“Increasingly, companies with a distributed workforce want reassurance that staff can access a professional work environment rather than just their kitchen table or spare room. This explains the rise of ‘third places’ - professional workspace on demand. Regus Express is a glimpse into the future of work, where the new rules are flexibility, convenience and choice.”

Simon Turl, CEO of Roadchef commented: “We are extremely pleased to be working with Regus to bring this additional facility to our motorway service areas. Business users will no longer have to contend with other users of the MSA whilst they are trying to work and groups can meet comfortably on the motorway, reducing congestion and unnecessary journeys. We look forward to seeing the network grow.”

There are two ways to access Regus Express centres:

• Pay-as-you-go access priced at £5 per hour or £10 per day.
• Regus Businessworld membership at £35 per month, which provides drop-in access to the business lounges at each of Regus’ 300 UK locations including Regus Express.

[1] http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1616

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