New Office Hunt
So far 2011 has been a absolutely manic year at One Result, we have seen strong growth across all parts of the business, particularly mobile solutions with some really exciting enterprise projects that are not available through the app store.
The team has grown considerably over the past few months and we are fortunate to be building a great team of guys and girls who all get what One Result is about and where we are heading.
With growth comes numerous headaches for any business, things that were once simple become time consuming and profit draining and have to be managed effectively. Considerations on health and safety, long term resource planning, cash forecasting, HR and personal development of employees all feature highly on a list of non core tasks that are non revenue generative.
In addition to our recruitment drive we are currently looking at re-location options for a couple of reasons.
Our office is absolutely stunning, a barn conversion in leafy tanworth in arden, but it has 4 issues for us moving forward.
1. There is no space left, with 13 people in 865sqft it's a very tight squeeze.
2. The office is open plan which is great for atmosphere and collaboration but means our meeting area lacks privacy.
3. Broadband, it's rural location and the fact the local exchange probably still has an old lady manually patching te calls through means our broadband just isn't cutting it, so far fibre is looking like a 10k investment!
4. Techies don't like cars, a bit of a sweeping statement but being rural and not near any major public transport routes impacts are ability to recruit good people, we have interviewed a number of candidates in recent months who would have been great, but the commute was just not feasible.
So now all we need to do is find a great looking office, with decent broadband, near major public transport, with at least 10 parking spaces a minimum of 1500sqft around the Solihull area.
We have identified a number of options and will see what comes up over the next few weeks and just how hard we can negotiate, after all the commercial property market is in dire straits and we have been offered all kinds of deals like 6 months rent free, 2 years half price, additional car park spaces.
So the hunt continues....
Onwards!
