600 17th
St., Ste. 2800
Denver, CO 80202
Contact: Gary Hahnenkamp
Phone: 303-260-6400
Web site: www.youroffice.com
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YOUROFFICE
USA BRINGS BUSINESS SOLUTIONS TO LAKEWOOD
Innovative Company to Add At
Least Eight Locations in Area
(Denver, CO)---BusinessWeek
calls them “location-independent” and
“office-agnostic.” They are part of what demographers and futurists term the
“distributed workforce,” employees who have no permanent office at their
companies. Their numbers represented 40 percent of the workforce at IBM and
nearly 50 percent of employees at Sun Microsystems, the magazine reported.
The Work Design Collaborative estimates that by
2012, 40 percent of the American workforce will be distributed. How and where
people work – whether as a corporate employee, home-based professional, entrepreneur,
consultant, mobile worker or sales representative – has changed forever and that
delights Scott Rae Buono, president and CEO of YourOffice USA.
“The way the
world works is changing dramatically,” Buono said. “It’s creating a huge demand
from both corporations and even home-based businesses for remote workplaces.
People now have choices in how they work.”
Though Denver already has one YourOffice
location located at 600 17th St., the need for these services is on
the rise and the Orlando, Florida-based company plans to add at eight locations
throughout the area. Denver YourOffice owner Gary Hahnenkamp will significantly
contribute to this growth: he has already signed an agreement to open three more
YourOffice locations in the Denver area, the first of which opened in April at
143
Union Blvd. in Lakewood.
Hahnenkamp
began his career as a program analyst and systems engineer at corporations
ranging from ConocoPhillips to Boeing before transitioning into mainframe
software sales for Software AG and XcelleNet. During this career shift,
Hahnenkamp realized how many of his clients were still relying on dial-up
Internet connections instead of fully utilizing higher-technology offerings and
knew he could offer a better, more efficient way for them to do business.
Hahnenkamp did this by opening YourOffice Denver
at the height of the dot-com boom in 1998 and quickly gained a tech-savvy
client base. His services were so in demand that he increased his office space
to a 17,000-square-foot penthouse and continued to grow his clientele both
physically and virtually.
“When it comes
to giving small and home-based businesses a leg up, no other business can do it
like YourOffice,” said Hahnenkamp, 53. “We have more bandwidth than all of our
competitors combined and have truly become a one-stop shop for businesses
looking to grow.” With 60 offices and 145 virtual office clients in his current
space, Hahnenkamp is not done growing yet: he has already signed an agreement to
open three more YourOffice locations in the Denver area. The first of the new
locations – an 18,000-square-foot space with 65 offices at
143
Union Blvd. in Lakewood – will allow Hahnenkamp to better service his
current and future suburban clients who crave office space closer to their
homes.
YourOffice is uniquely
positioned to lead the tremendous shift in the work environment by providing
adaptable, affordably priced business centers featuring the technological
sophistication that today’s “information age” workforce demands. YourOffice
Business Centers provide office space and business services to in-house tenants,
home-based businesses who may not need full-time office space and small
businesses or corporate representatives that require a full-time office but want
professional services on an a la carte basis. Clients gain access to all the
benefits of a full-service office environment without the capital costs
associated with traditional offices, sometimes trimming costs by 50 to 70
percent. Clients can simply walk in, sit down and get to work.
At the same time,
YourOffice provides small and home-based businesses cost-effective and efficient
support through “virtual” offices that are available by the hour, day or month –
“as they need it, when they need it” – while also supplying necessary tools such
as a professional business address, personalized telephone answering, private
mailbox service and more that support clients who want to look, act and operate
with an advanced business image.
As the need for these
services increases, continued expansion is on the docket. Projections call for
more than 100 new business centers to open during the next five years in
Florida, the Southeast and other targeted U.S. cities, including those where
YourOffice has existing locations – like Denver.
“We would like to
strategically grow around a cluster program where every market that we enter
would grow into a cluster of three to five locations instead of an isolated
center,” Buono said. “You really build synergy from that local network as well
as the national network that we are building.” YourOffice business owners are
typically hands-on operators who handle both day-to-day operations and marketing
responsibilities until the business matures and they are able to hire managers
for those areas. A program is also available for investors who prefer to have a
vested manager handle operations under the tutelage and guidance of the
franchisor.
With the exception of one major international brand, the serviced-office
industry is highly fragmented and comprised primarily of independent operators.
However, Buono foresees tremendous consolidation and says YourOffice is well
positioned for long-term success.
“Right now we are a small, early-stage concept but one that is run by deeply
experienced veterans of the industry,” Buono said. “We think there will be
tremendous consolidation within this industry and it is ultimately going to grow
up under a unified brand and unified operating system that gives clients a
consistent package of quality services they can count on. A franchise
proposition is perfectly situated in that type of environment and our local,
vested ownership will make a big difference.”
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