AdvantEdge Workspaces Blog

“How do you want to work?”  It’s not a question someone who’s searching for shared office space often asks themselves.  However at AdvantEdge, the how is just as important as the where when it comes to the types of office solutions we provide.

AdvantEdge is proud to offer part-time office space and day office use at both of our centers.  What’s the difference you may ask between part-time office and day office use?

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Author: Isabelle Leichtman 

It’s an event people of all ages around the world wait for every 4 years, the summer Olympic Games.  This year the games began in London, England on Friday, July 27 with coverage by NBC in the United States.  According to the Wall Street Journal, Comcast Corp.’s NBC Universal recorded that some 35.8 million viewers tuned into the first three nights of the Olympics.  As NBC states, this past weekend had the most viewers of any opening weekend for the summer Olympics with 5 million more viewers than 2008’s games in Beijing, China.  In addition, 11.4 million videos were watched on NBCOlympics.com this past Sunday (with this year being the first time NBC is streaming the games live on their website).

Author: Jillian Joseph

The arrival of cloud storage is changing not only how we share files personally, but also professionally.  Now the business world is likely to be even more shaken up seeing as on Monday, July 16, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer released a preview version of Office 2013 and its cloud-connected cousin, Office 365, at a media event in San Francisco. This is timed nicely with the upcoming launch of Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 8, in October.  The company's next-generation office suite appears to be tightly focused on mobile devices, touchscreens, and the cloud.

Why should brands care about video content? According to the video infographic below, a video is worth even more than a thousand words when it comes to online business! The following statistics from this Social Times article highlight the reasons why businesses should be concerned about video content. The stats also provide compelling evidence in favor of focusing marketing efforts on the creation and optimization of video content.

According to Engine Yard, a leading provider of PaaS (Platform as a Service), by 2015 mobile application development projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4 to 1. Innovation in mobile is imperative, and there’s a need for tools that enable businesses to innovate quickly. Many cloud computing technologies–like Engine Yard’s Platform as a Service–have enabled developers and businesses to focus on application innovation. The infographic below illustrates their findings:

All professionals have experienced that dreaded moment in their career when our precious electronics fail us. We can’t get our important presentation up on the screen, our internet connection is lost, or the printer suddenly stopped working while we’re on deadline. Before you reach for the phone and call your IT department or consultant, be your own IT guy or girl and try these simple steps:

The healing power of laughter is an often discussed subject in health studies.  Most of us inherently understand its value in our personal lives and relationships, but what about humor’s effects in office ergonomics?  Many people nowadays work in shared or co-working office space, and the traditional boundaries between professional and private lives are often blurred due to the sheer amount of time we spend every day next to our coworkers.