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How Much Office Space Do I Need?

Finding the ideal space to run your business can be challenging. For cities in the UK like Liverpool, commercial space availability varies between location and demand. Due to price and availability constraints, it’s essential to have an accurate idea of how much space you’ll need.

When you’re looking to rent an office space for your business, you want to ensure that there’s enough square footage to accommodate your employees, meetings, equipment, furniture, and have extra free space for potential expansion. To get you started, here is Centaur Properties' helpful guide on calculating your office space requirements.

Downsizing Your Office Space in Liverpool

During the Covid 19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, many businesses had to adapt to allow their employees to work remotely. As restrictions continue to ease, almost half of the businesses in the Liverpool City region have continued to roll out new agile working models, with many medium-sized businesses now allowing their staff to permanently work from home for at least 3 days a week.

Top 5 Locations in Liverpool for your Industrial Business

Similar to retail, commercial, and residential properties, location is crucial for an industrial business to succeed. Industrial properties in Liverpool have always been in high demand with businesses of all sizes. Due to its convenient location in the North West, Liverpool has had its fair share of history in trade, making it one of the most important port cities in the UK. 

Enhance Your Employee's Work Skills With Free Training

At the start of 2021, the UK government invested £2.5 billion in the National Skills Fund, giving many employees, adults, and students to improve their work skills, gain valuable skills and enhance their job prospects with free training. Such courses and qualifications range from accounting, construction, public service, teaching, engineering, conservation, agriculture, and much more.


Industrial Storage Units Liverpool

Here at Centaur Properties, we advertise industrial storage units and commercial properties on behalf of commercial agents, landlords, chartered surveyors and property professionals throughout Liverpool. By working on a firsthand basis with commercial letting agents, we discover and list all types of properties including, retail, industrial, offices, warehousing, leisure and hospitality buildings. So whether you’re searching for retail space in the city centre or a warehouse unit on the outskirts of Liverpool, you can find it here on Centaur Properties.

Are Reports About the Death of the Office Premature?

With the rise of advanced technologies and a more tech-savvy lifestyle globally, the decline of the office as the centre of the primary workplace is more prevalent than ever, so it begs the question, if the relevance and necessity of offices have become obsolete, or is it too early to agree with this statement?

Many tech industries already adopt the typical 9-5 work hour lifestyle, and both the new and upcoming generations are embracing the freedom and flexibility of working from home. The rise of 'work from home' and decline in office culture has been heavily debated by various professions and industries for years, with many workers stating that work could not be done from home.