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IRM: Virtual offices accepted as norm
Businesses and customers alike are revolutionising the way they operate by using virtual offices, a leading body has said.
The use of email, mobile phones and laptops is enabling business owners to take a more flexible approach to working hours and locations.
According to the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) customers are responding well to virtual offices, which allow entrepreneurs to receive phone calls and have mail forwarded to them without the need for the traditional four walls.
IRM marketing manager Ian Fraser said that with technology becoming more and more relied upon to operate transactions, virtual offices are "increasingly seen as an acceptable (even normal) way of doing business".
He further added that they "can limit the impact of a disaster as locations can be spread out".
According to a study by Choregus, an office industry resource, 40 per cent of virtual office customers are in the banking and finance industries, followed by 16 per cent in the business sector.
