*The new business lounge offers high-end business resources in a coffeehouse setting*
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – 3rd December 2009: Regus Group (LSE: RGU), the leading global provider of workplace solutions, today introduced its new Regus Business Lounge concept in its flagship business centre in the world famous Petronas Towers. Prominently located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur’s Golden Triangle Area, the new Regus Business Lounge, combines the resources of a state-of-the-art business centre with the relaxing, community atmosphere of a modern day coffeehouse. It offers mobile workers a comfortable, professional working environment complete with a gourmet coffee bar, different types of workspaces and meeting facilities, and productivity tools that include computers, secure Wi-Fi Internet access at no additional charge, and high-definition videoconferencing capabilities.
According to William Willems, Regional Vice-President for The Regus Group in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia, “Our business is to understand the needs of our customers, from full-service office facilities to the independent mobile worker who needs minimal infrastructure but a base from which to work, connect with clients and to recharge. This is the concept behind the Regus Business Lounges which provides a base from which mobile staff can operate allowing them the flexibility they need to seize business opportunities when they arise. Given that the Petronas Towers is one of the most riveting urban architectures in Southeast Asia for business travellers and tourists alike, it is undeniably an ideal setting for our first Business Lounge opening in Malaysia.”
The new opening in Kuala Lumpur is part of a global corporate roll-out to launch Business Lounges across the company’s international network of more than 1000 Regus business centres in 76 countries worldwide. The Business Lounge in the Kuala Lumpur Petronas Towers business center is one of the first such facilities in the region, recognising the important regional role played by Malaysia as an international business hub.
Recent research supports the need for this type of convenient, more flexible work environment. The worldwide mobile worker population is set to increase from 758.6 million in 2006 to 1.0 billion in 2011, accounting for 30.4% of the workforce. Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) will have the largest number of mobile workers throughout the forecast. The region had 479.8 million mobile workers in 2006, and that number will grow to reach 671.2 million in 2011 . (Source: IDC, “Worldwide Mobile Worker Population 2007 – 2011 Forecast”)
In support of this, given that the dynamics of the global mobile working environment is rapidly changing, Regus recently introduced the ‘Smartworking’ concept to the market. ‘Smartworking’ is a newly coined term which embraces flexible ways of working for individuals and companies to provide them with the ability to deliver quicker and faster results with fewer resources. The principles of ‘Smartworking,’ incorporated in Regus’ business centres and Business Lounges worldwide, aim to shape management practices and decisions, infrastructure demands, social, ethical, environmental expectations and the very nature of work for years to come.
With a one swipe easy-access for customers, the Regus ‘Business Lounge in the Petronas Towers business centre offers a contemporary interior specially designed to fit the work patterns of today’s mobile workers who want flexibility in where and how they work. Inside, professionals will find:
— Helpful, friendly and professional staff. Concierges will check business professionals into the space and ensure that they have everything they need to be productive.
— Open lounge areas with comfortable seating
— Signature ThinkPods provide a more private workspace for individual workers. State-of-the art meeting rooms are equipped with a whiteboard, plasma monitors and videoconferencing equipment. Private ready-to-work offices are also available.
— Business and refreshment bars. Two business bars are lined with Internet-ready computers. Free, unlimited, freshly brewed gourmet coffee is available, while meals, healthy snacks, and other refreshments can be purchased.
— Printing center and library. The printing center offers free black-and-white copies with the ability to print from a PDA, along with low rates on colour copies, colour printing and binding. “Recharge” lockers allow clients to securely store and charge electronics, and the business library offers current news publications to help keep busy professionals informed.
Always situated at premier locations, Regus’ Business Lounges offer increased flexibility in terms of rent, space and support services to help customers work wherever, whenever and however they need and focus on the development of their core businesses.
Regus is celebrating twenty years of successful international growth, beginning with its first centre opening in Brussels in 1989. Today, the company has 1,000 centres across 76 countries, with over 110 in Asia Pacific and three leading edge business centres in Kuala Lumpur, including the Petronas Towers, KL Sentral and Central Plaza.
To find out more visit, www.regus.com.my
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About The Regus Group
The Regus Group is the world’s leading provider of pioneering workplace solutions, with products and services ranging from fully equipped offices to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the largest network of videoconferencing studios. The Regus Group delivers a new way to work, whether it’s from home, on the road or from an office. Clients such as Google, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, Nokia and Accenture join thousands of growing small and medium businesses that benefit from outsourcing their office and workplace needs to The Regus Group, allowing them to focus on their core business.
Over 400,000 clients a day benefit from Regus Group facilities spread across a global footprint of 1000 locations in 450 cities and 75 countries, which allows individuals and companies to work wherever, however and whenever they want to. For more information, visit www.regus.com.my
About Regus – 20 Years of Smartworking
Regus is celebrating a successful twenty years of international growth, beginning with its first centre opening in Brussels in 1989, and now spanning the globe with presence in 450 cities and 76 countries. The company currently has 500 000 clients worldwide, ranging from half of the Fortune 500, to thousands of small and medium sized companies in all sectors. The Regus network continues to develop with increasing momentum. It recently opened its 1,000th centre in Mauritius, which was quickly followed with ones in Estonia and Senegal. Mark Dixon’s initial vision of ‘smartworking’ has been inexorably moving to the mainstream over the last twenty years, and is expected to undergo rapid growth in the coming years.
About ‘Smartworking’
‘Smartworking’ is a term coined by Regus that embraces the entirety of new ways of working opportunities in the 21st century – be that spatial and temporal autonomy, the required cultural and trust transitions, technological advances, wider intellectual connections and stimuli, social, ethical and environmental sensitivities – all harmonised to suit the individual working style. A pervasive principle that may require significant organisational change, ‘Smartworking’ aims to shape management practices and decisions, infrastructure demands, social, ethical and environmental expectations and the very nature of work for years to come.