Feb 17, 2010
Wikipedia’s Take on Virtual Offices
If you want to know what a virtual office is, you might try looking up the term in the world’s most popular virtual encyclopedia. Wikipedia is up on the virtual office trend, giving its user-generated definitions and explanations of the industry in its own wiki-way.
So what is a virtual office? According to Wikipedia, a virtual office is “a combination of off-site live communication and address services that allow users to reduce traditional office costs while maintaining business professionalism.” That’s a mouthful, isn’t it? But it sums up the concept nicely.
Wikipedia also goes on to explain how virtual offices are often confused with office business centers or executive suites. The difference between the two is this: virtual offices give you access to a physical conference room when needed but the services are provided virtually. An executive office suite gives you a physical location you can access every day as part of a rental agreement.
Virtual offices also include the concepts of virtual receptionists who can answer an 800 number on behalf of your company, as well as virtual assistants that can complete administrative tasks to free up your internal resources. Working together, virtual offices, virtual receptionists and virtual assistants can complete the circle of officing needs for entrepreneurs, small businesses and even large enterprises moving into new geographic territories.
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