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M40 Offices’ Office and Warehouse Vacancies

2 weeks ago

by M40 Offices in Bicester, Offices, Uncategorized, Virtual Offices, Workshops

M40 Offices Current Rental Vacancies

Comprising of a wide range of offices, laboratories, workshops, storage containers, meeting rooms and conferencing suites, M40 Offices has the winning fusion of accommodation and expertise to make sure we match you with the space your business needs.

As a family-run company with premises available to rent in the historic market town of Bicester and the Anglo-Saxon parishes of Thame and Wheatley, at M40 Offices, we understand that every business is unique, and we’ll work with you to offer the most flexible terms, ensuring what you get is exactly right for you.

Here’s a list of our current rental vacancies:

Thame

We currently have four serviced offices available at our Thame Business Centre, based in the magnificent Belmont House, situated right in the heart of the town. These suites are between 150 ft² and 556 ft².

Wheatley

There are four self-contained offices at our Wheatley Business Centre (5 minutes from junction 8a of the M40) between 370 ft² and 1000 ft², plus two warehouses of 440 ft² each.

Bicester

At our Bicester Business Centre, we have four serviced offices available, of between 154 ft² and 370 ft², plus one 720 ft² self-contained office.

The all-inclusive price at all of our centres covers:

Rent
Rates
Building Insurance
Repairs
Internal & External Maintenance
Security
Hot & Cold Water to the Toilets and Kitchen
Communal Cleaning
Waste Removal
Lighting of the Common Parts
Window Cleaning
Signage

We’re also including a year’s free, high-speed broadband for any tenants who take up a 12-month contract.

And remember, if you introduce new tenants to M40 Offices, we’ll pay you the equivalent of their first month’s rent, which can be anything up to £1500.

Read more about the M40 Offices Referral Scheme, here.

So, if you or anyone you know may be interested in taking space at one of our Business Centres – at Bicester, Wheatley or Thame – please contact Georgina Hamilton on 07831 588238, or email Georgina@M40offices.com

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Psst… Want to make a quick £1500?

2 weeks ago

by M40 Offices in Bicester, Oxfordshire, Thame, Uncategorized, Wheatley

M40 Offices Referral Scheme

Psst… want to make a quick £1500?

You don’t have to take your clothes off, drive a get-a-way car or dress anyone in a concrete overcoat – all you have to do is keep your eyes and ears open for friends or colleagues who are looking for office suites, warehouses or storage space in the Oxfordshire area: specifically in Bicester, Wheatley and Thame.

If, after your referral, they sign up to use our premises, as a thank you for putting us in touch, M40 Offices will pay you the equivalent of their first month’s rent – which could be anything from a few hundred pounds, up to a whopping £1500.

So, if you know anyone that may be interested in taking space at one of our Business Centres – at Bicester, Wheatley or Thame – please contact Georgina Hamilton on 07831 588238, or email Georgina@M40offices.com

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Office Karma

3 weeks ago

by M40 Offices in Bicester, News, Offices, Oxfordshire, Thame, Uncategorized, Wheatley

A Safe and Sound Working Environment

As your business expands and you reach that critical point where you have to take on more staff, remember that your ongoing success becomes dependant on your team, rather than just yourself, so investing in their welfare is going to pay dividends.

Treating your staff with the same care and respect you would (or should) yourself also helps to increase productivity.

Conversely, if you’re lounging in a state-of-the art ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ throne while your employees have to sit on rickety, old dining chairs that were bought from a car boot sale, there may just be a little resentment.

A good example of this is the Emperor, from the Star Wars Saga, who was often seen sitting in a lovely, big, snug armchair, whereas his apprentice, Darth Vader, was forever stomping around and never took the time to relax.

The result? Darth Vader’s hand got chopped off and he became so annoyed that he threw his boss down a ventilation shaft.

In this digital age, the office workstation it the place and space we spend most of our time. The simplistic view is if you have the basics – desk, chair, computer – then you’re ready to roll, but as an employer, you take on certain legal (and moral) responsibilities to ensure your workers are comfortable and will come to no harm, both in the short and long term.

So, here are some tips to make sure your office environment is comfortable for everyone…

The office desk is where it all happens, but if we’re hunching over the keyboard or have to reach up like a small child struggling on tip-toes to turn the kitchen tap on and pour a glass of water, there’s a problem.

Your forearms should be perpendicular to the surface of the desk, with shoulders relaxed, so make sure the height of desk is conducive to this. Adjustable legs are particularly useful, allowing alterations to suit individual users, and to make sure that their chair fits well, underneath.

On the subject of chairs, this is really something you shouldn’t scrimp on. A bad office chair is going to be the main factor in posture problems, which, in turn, can lead to physical aches and pains and even serious back problems, and if you have an employee off work for a month – whacked-up on codeine and playing World of Warcraft – you’re going to find that cheap seating you bought has become much more costly than the expensive, ergonomic option.

A good chair will provide sturdy lumbar support and allow the user to relax their legs with their feet flat on the floor – preventing knee and ankle strain – so make sure it has a few dimensions of adjustability.

Now you’re sitting comfortably…

… but if you have to look down at your monitor all the time, there’s a risk of neck-ache, which can lead to headaches and, again, back problems. The ideal position is to have the top line of text on your screen just below your eye-line, so if it’s currently six inches lower, invest in a monitor rise or, ideally, a monitor arm.

Another consideration with monitors is glare from lighting – either natural or artificial – and you should put thought into the positioning of your workstation to minimise this, as it’s one of the prime catalysts of nasty headaches.

If you have your back to a window that’s not facing north (or south, for any of you reading in the southern hemisphere), there’s going to be a good portion of each day where you have direct Sunlight on the monitor, and that’s no fun. It’s not simply a case of turning the desk around, though, because then you’re going to have that direct Sunlight directly in your line of sight.

Experiment with the best spot that puts glare at a minimum throughout the whole of the day, also bearing in mind artificial light (for example, if you have a strong fluorescent light above and behind you, that will be a problem, too). Use blinds on the windows and lampshades to diffuse strong lighting, if needed.

If you’ve done all this and your employee is still wincing at the screen, perhaps go the extra mile and pay for an eye test for them, if for nothing else than your own amusement – it’s always a comical day at the office when someone turns up wearing glasses for the first time.

Ergonomic keyboards and mice may be a little more expensive, but are yet another thing that you shouldn’t overlook, especially when the lion’s share of work is done at the computer. An ergonomic design encourages a more relaxed positioning of the arms and hands, which helps to alleviate fatigue and discomfort, while also reducing the risk of injury such as the modern baddie, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Narrower keyboards reduce the reach distance to the mouse, and a numeric keypad is often superfluous for general office tasks, so if you really don’t need it, buy something more compact, or with a separate keypad.

A very good point to remember is that there are TWO shift buttons on a keyboard, and if you’re a heavy-duty typist and constantly use the left-hand button, you’re going to feel the strain on your pinkie. Have the presence of mind to break that bad habit – it may slow down your typing for a while, but you’ll quickly make it second-nature, and the benefit of strong little fingers will give you the competitive advantage for those wish-bone-snapping duels at Christmas.

Coming to a close on this blog, keep in mind that the temperature of your office also has a great impact on productivity. If you and your employees are freezing cold or roasting hot, it’s going to be a distraction from the task at hand.

Some studies suggest that worker productivity is enhanced in a temperature of between 21C – 23C, so turning up the thermostat in the winter or buying a few fans to position around the room during the Summer months will likely end up as a net saving, rather than yet another expense.

Last, but far from least, make sure you splash out on a good kettle! (Actually, I should have put this first.)

I hope you find some of this useful! If you do, please feel free to follow M40 Offices on Twitter at M40 Offices Twitter, or LIKE us on Facebook, at:

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The Virtual Office Start-up Solution?

1 month ago

by M40 Offices in Bicester, Oxfordshire, Thame, Virtual Offices, Wheatley

Real Business. Virtual Office?

These are tough times we’re going through.

The world is clawing itself out of one recession and the spectre of that feared double-dip is threatening to reach up and pull us back into the pit.

In the UK, nearly 2.7m people have lost their jobs since 2008. Of those lucky enough to find new work, two thirds are taking drastic cuts in wages – on average, 28% less than they were bringing home before.

The silver lining, though, is that many people are using this hardship as an opportunity to change the course of their lives by taking a leap into business for themselves, either as a supplement to their income or by breaking away entirely from their ‘corporate-slave’ past and using redundancy payments to build the foundation of a new, brighter, self-reliant future.

With the advent of the Internet-age and the ability, through social networking, to spread word of your talents and services to a national and international market on a shoe-string budget, home-working no longer means being paid a pittance addressing envelopes in some dodgy pyramid scheme, or selling cosmetics or cleaning products door to door. The world has become your oyster; your skill and imagination dictating the size of the pearl you grow from it.

That said, not every start-up matures into a thriving multi-million pound company (far from it, in fact), but while it’s true that no entrepreneurial endeavour succeeds without an element of financial risk, it doesn’t mean you have to put all your chips on the table from the outset.

For example, you don’t need to buy a £2,500 photocopier if a £50 triple-combo printer/scanner/photocopier from Staples will cover your needs in the beginning. You don’t need a gold-effect, adjustable, long arm stapler for £50 if a 99p box of paperclips will do the same job.

Likewise, if you’ve got a corner of a spare room you can comfortably work in – or even the kitchen table when the kids are in bed – you don’t need to begin your entrepreneurial assault on the world in a fully-furnished, air conditioned, Feng Shui-balanced office, paying that extra expense of hundreds or even thousands of pounds per month, when that money could be used much more effectively elsewhere.

That’s where a virtual office with M40 Offices would come in handy.

The presentation afforded through use of virtual offices gives your customers the confidence they’re dealing with a professional organisation, yet at a much-reduced cost to you in those vital early days, when finances are often tight.

For a one-off administration charge of £50, and then £30 per month thereafter, you get a personalised suite number at the address of one of our business centres in Thame, Wheatley or Bicester – all in Oxfordshire – and you can use this for accepting, sending and forwarding post. (A small charge applies for processing your mail, but it’s an overhead cost that increases only as your business grows.)

We can also – in partnership with TMcom – set up a cost-reducing VoIP telephone system and give you an Oxfordshire phone prefix, a non-geographic number (such as 0845) or any other prefix in the United Kingdom, and have calls re-routed to your mobile or landline.

You don’t have to be in Oxfordshire to take advantage of these services. You could live in a high-rise in Glasgow or terraced house in Plymouth and still benefit from the impression that you’re working from a prestigious postcode at one of our physical office suites. We’re happy to work with anyone in the UK.

(If you are in the Oxfordshire area and need to organise face-to-face encounters with your clients or business partners, we can also offer you a much-reduced rate on our meeting rooms and conference suite.)

When conditions are right – when your business and income has grown to a level that demands you look at expanding your physical working space, and you actually need that £50 stapler – we’ll be delighted to see you move onward and upward, and we’ll make sure any straggling post is forwarded on in a timely manner.

We’ll be even more delighted if you decide, at that exciting time, to take a look around our bricks & mortar offices and rent something suitable for your new requirements, with us!

Until then, whatever business adventure you’re setting out on, we’d love to be part of your first steps.

If you’d like to talk to us about this, you can call Georgina on 01844 260 500, or get in touch by email at: Georgina@M40offices.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

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Happy Easter!

1 month ago

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M40 Offices would like to wish you all a lovely Easter.

What is Hosted VoIP at M40 Offices, Oxfordshire?

1 month ago

by M40 Offices in Bicester, Offices, Oxfordshire, Telecoms, Thame, Virtual Offices, Wheatley, Workshops

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Hosted VoIP and Super Fast Broadband at Bicester Business Park, Wheatley Business Centre and Thame Business Centre:-

M40 Offices have invested a lot of time and money in providing the very latest technology for our tenants at our three business centres in Oxford.

M40 Offices work closely with TMCom, who even share an office with myself (Georgina) at Wheatley Business Centre, and over the past couple of years, they have designed a superb “plug and go” internet and telephone system for our offices, which works on using the very latest VoIP technology and super fast broadband.

TMCom can supply any UK number including non-geographic numbers like 0844 etc. The location has no bearing on the area code, so you can in effect portray a larger footprint by using different area codes in advertising campaigns if needed.

TMCom can port your existing number into their network if you would prefer this (this can take up to 20 working days) and again, it would then not matter if you moved location with that phone, so long as you are plugged into a good broadband supply then the phone will make and receive calls.

See below for more information explaining what VoIP actually is:

What is Hosted VoIP?

VoIP is just another way of making a phone call. You’ve probably used it many times without even realising it! Put simply, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is about making calls over the Internet, rather than through traditional telephone lines. All you need is a broadband connection and a phone adaptor similar to a modem. Simple.

The result is a substantial reduction in cost with no loss of audio quality. You can use ‘normal’ VoIP phones or use soft phones on your desktop, wherever you have a broadband connection.

Why should I use VoIP?

All call charges are significantly reduced and calls to other VoIP phones are free, with no loss of call quality giving you great savings. VoIP can be used anywhere that there is a broadband connection, so employees can make free calls on a VoIP telephone at home, on the train or even on the beach (using WiFi). VoIP is the medium of the future.

How does a business use VoIP?

TMCom have a full VoIP training programme – it is really easy! They will help your company to develop employee communication networks. This means that any employee (regardless of location) can talk to another employee free of charge. Plus, when they call a third party outside the network, call rates are dramatically reduced, with business VoIP calls from just 1.0p to UK landlines the US and Europe.

So, is VoIP just a cost thing?

VoIP has saved many of our tenants thousands of pounds in hardware and call costs. VoIP is so much more than just a cost effective business telephone system. It pulls down the barriers of conventional phone systems, and because VoIP network calls are free, employees have greater freedom and there is better communication connectivity for the entire workforce and the whole company can make substantial savings.

Why does my business not have VoIP already?

Many business phone companies don’t want to push VoIP too much because they cannot make such a large profit from it as they can with big old-fashioned business phone systems. Hosted VoIP is no longer a concept, but a reality for business and is set to revolutionise the telecommunications market. Adopting it will offer you features you previously would not have been able to implement, such as Mobile VoIP and make your business telephone system much more efficient and scalable.

Can off-site sales teams connect to VoIP?

Calls to allocated mobile numbers like ordinary LAN lines are greatly reduced. An employee working away from the office can also access their phone settings and business voicemail online via any Internet access point and make calls for free.

If I work from home, can I use my business VoIP network?

Yes, all you need is a computer and a broadband connection. All you need to do is to log on to your soft phone options, or plug into one of TMCom Cisco VoIP phones and you can make calls as if they are in the office.

What will it cost to implement a Business VoIP system?

Many VoIP business solutions do not require any capital investment. Unlike with a PBX, the solution is hosted and managed outside the office at the I.P. network centres.

What is a PBX?

A PBX is a physical business phone system that usually sits in a server room. PBX’s are expensive (some can cost £10k) and cumbersome and need large investment for hardware upgrades and maintenance.

Does this make my PBX redundant?

For complete business VoIP solutions no PBX is required. However, there are services that hook up a VoIP network to an existing PBX offering business phone system scalability with minimal to no hardware costs.

As you can see, VoIP is the future of telecommunications and we are able to provide you with this fantastic facility in any one of our offices at M40 Offices.