Offices in Badalona: Espai 114

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In Espai 114 we have a service for renting offices in Badalona since October 2017. This space complements coworking in an ideal way. The first step for an entrepreneur is usually a coworking table and, when their business evolves, they can choose to expand their workspace and go on to rent an office. It does not mean that an entrepreneur can not go directly to have his own office, this is usually the most usual.

The project of the offices in Espai 114 has been a perfect complement to our Coworking, being able to increase the number of companies and professionals, which can benefit each other from a common workspace, networking, and all the services that Lladó Grup offers to its customers.

In this way, we have managed to retain great value customers that help us to make Espai 114 a place for all types of companies, where our priority is to facilitate their growth and future, specializing in SMEs, micro-SMEs and independent professionals.

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We have five offices in Badalona, private and fully equipped, with capacity for work for 2 people. They are open offices, exterior and bright, making them a perfect space for daily work.

Each office is equipped with:

– Two tables, two chairs, two books, two wardrobes.

– Individual air conditioning with heat pump.

– Supplies (water, electricity, air conditioning).

– Internet (fiber optic cable and Wi-Fi).

– Availability 24/7. We deliver you a key and you can enter and leave whenever you want.

– Insurance against theft.

– Use of the meeting room.

– CANON multifunction printer.

– Cleaning service.

– Reception.

– Domiciliation of up to 3 companies

– and others….

Our clients enjoy the use of our Meeting Room , the corporate domiciliation and can complete the services with financial advice andlegal, labor and tax consulting of Lladó Grup Consultor.

 

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The rate for renting offices includes a bag of 10 hours per month in the Meeting Room. It is a diaphanous space specially designed to achieve diverse functions, and adapt to changes and all kinds of needs. It can be used for interviews, meetings, talks, trainings. Our room adapts to our client.

They also have the option to domiciliate their company in Espai 114. They will be domiciled in a prestigious address in the center of Badalona,giving their business the image, seriousness and confidence they want to project.

When our customers domicile their company in our Business Center they can receive visits from their customers and receive messaging and parcels during business hours of the Business Center. We can also help you give more visibility to your Brand through the screens of our Business Center and our Website.

If you are looking for a place to work and still do not decide, you can contact us and close a visit to our facilities. You’ll be able to see them and meet us. This old entry can inspire you: Economic difference between local rental and business center

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.
In Espai 114 together we are a team; we want to inspire and accompany you.

What is Blue Monday

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Today, Monday, January 18, 2021, is Blue Monday,considered the saddest day of the year, but why? What reason makes it to be considered the saddest day? We will explain below why it has this negative consideration.

 

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Why is it considered the saddest day of the year?

This unfortunate recognition arose in 2005, when psychologist Cliff Arnall tried to calculate what was the worst day of the year. To this end, he took into account in the weather, the large Christmas expenses and the frustrated purposes of previous years. He also introduced statistics of motivational levels, among other data, to finish calculating which day was the winner of this bad “fame”.

Cliff Arnall, looking at what his patients were telling him, analyzed the factors that stressed those who came to his workshops and concluded that on the third Monday in January of each year he was“particularly depressing.”

In English, the blue word is used to describe sad or depressing things. That’s why he called this day Blue Monday.

Despite his study and conclusion, many people criticize his theories and question his thesis.

What do you think about this day?

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Let’s face Blue Monday with the best SMILE.

We know that this day encourages us to let ourselves be carried away by sadness and apathy, so from Espai114 we want to encourage you to be positive and turn the Blue Monday upside down.

1. Think about it’s one more Monday and it doesn’t have to be better or worse than any other. You decide the attitude with which to face the day.

2. Watch what goes through your mind. Don’t get carried away by negative thoughts and take controlby focusing them on good things.

3. If you really feel it’s not your best day, avoid making decisions that may be motivated by your mood.

4. To cheer you up, do activitiesthat motivate you and have fun. Once your workday is over (or before you start it), do activities that evade you such as exercising, watching series or spending time on your hobby.

5. Finally, there is no sad day that persists by spending a good time in good company. Try to surround yourself with a member of your bubble group to put negative thoughts aside.

 

Espai 114 is always at your disposal to help you and your company.
Here you will find everything we can offer you.

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

AtEspai 114together we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

 

 

What is a Business Center

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In case you still don’t know for sure what a Business Center is, today we’re going to explain it to you.

A Business Center is a place that offers private workspaces and complementary services for companies, so that they can carry out their professional activity successfully.

It is a work center where companies from different sectors coexist.

 

Save time and money

Business Centers offer more flexible terms than traditional offices. With a single payment of the rent of the space, the company does not have to think about anything else, the center takes care of the rest: air conditioning costs, supplies, cleaning, maintenance, reception… You can see the comparison between renting a traditional office and renting a space in a business center in this old post.

 

In addition, companies can outsource tasks, saving time. Business centers have services such as mail reception, parcels, reception of visits, courier, secretarial, etc.

 

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Flexibility and workspaces

In our space you have availability of your office or coworking 24 hours a day and every day of the year.

In addition to the flexibility regarding the adaptation and evolution of your work. You can move from a coworking table to a private office or simply have your company domiciled at our address. In addition, you have a multipurpose room for hours to meet with your workers or customers.

You can decide the type of space and time you need it.

 

Image

Key location, in our case in the center of Badalona, so that companies project a more professional image and thus provide greater visibility to their business and a good communication. This will make your image look favored.

 

Consulting

This Business Center, at the same time, is a business consultancy. Lladó Grup Consultor is a consolidated consultancy, which was created in 1955, has other differentiated facilities and is located a few blocks from our space. Here you can receive labor, tax and legal advice without having to hire this service in another consultan advice outside your office.

 

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Secure business center

This 2021 will continue to be marked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies must adapt quickly to changes and secure their workers’ space. That’s why business workers are coming here to work remotely. We seek the safety of our customers, with protection systems between them and health measures.

 

SERVICES WE OFFER AT ESPAI 114:

Coworking

Private offices

Business domiciliation

Meeting room

Financial solutions

Consulting

Continuous formation

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

In Espai 114 together we form a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

 

We say goodbye to 2020

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2020 has been a different year that has affected us all to a greater or lesser extent and will be etched in our memoirs. Still, we can say that given the adversity, we have grown as people and in many moments we have brought out our most humane and supportive side.

From Espai114 we want to thank all the companies that collaborate and work with us, for bringing each of them something special to our Business Center and making this a much better place.

Everyone has spent their most and minus throughout the year, both personally and professionally, but that leads us to move forward, grow and learn from our mistakes. That is why we prefer to keep the little moments of light that have been in these months and with the experiences and teachings we have gained, rather than with the darkest moments.

 

Purposes for 2021

If you are considering starting 2021 in a different way, giving your project a boost or refocusing it, we offer our help to achieve it.

You can join our coworking or one of our private offices, rent our multipurpose room or hire our business consulting services. We invite you to contact us and ask us for the information you need.

At Espai114 we will help you to enhance all aspects of your business and you will have the opportunity to meet other entrepreneurs like you with which to share experiences, learn and even form synergies.

 

We want this coming year to be more bearable for all, to start gaining ground for COVID-19 and to be able to regain collective health and economy.

The Espai114 team wishes you a happy holiday and a happy entry into 2021!

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

In Espai 114 we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

 

 

 

 

Order your workplace with Marie Kondo

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Tidy up your workplace, both what it’s seen it and what doesn’t. Marie Kondo can talk to us about organization. In case you don’t know her, Marie Kondois an expert organizer, a large entrepreneur and considered in 2015 to be one of the 100 most influential people in the world by the Time magazine. Well, he’s written a new book, “Joy at work”. This one will try to help us get more out of our businesses, waste less time, lead our teams better and enjoy our workday. At least, interesting, right?

The benefits of organizing actually go far beyond the domestic realm and are easily applicable to our professional life. Marie’s advice will help us optimize our time, be efficient, and focus on the most important tasks. Limit the number of unnecessary meetings that you could solve with a simple email. Learn to prioritize.

 

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The order expert explains that searching for lost items averages one work week per year and employee. Within four years, that reaches a full month. In the United States alone, this loss of productivity would be $8.9 billion annually. Another example is a survey of workers in the US and the UK, about the loss of productivity for forgetting passwords that reaches at least $420 per employee annually. In a company of about 25 people, that equates to more than $10,000 a year.

Thus seen, the effects of disorder are devastating but, according to Kondo, there is no need to worry. Organizing is the solution. And here are the tips to keep your workplace organized:

 

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1. Organize both physical workspace and non-physical aspects including time, decision making, team management, meetings and social media.

In a survey of a thousand active American adults, 90% felt that disorder had a negative impact on their lives. Low productivity, a negative mindset, little motivation and little happiness. It is important to maintain a well-orderedworkspace, whether inthe office, coworking or working from home, as we spend many hours at work.

Among some of Marie’s tips for maintaining order at work, one of them is assigning a specific place for each thing, seeking maximum simplicity, and not dispersing storage spaces.

 

2. Choose only what awakens our joy.

If we ask ourselves ‘does this bring me joy?’ we discover what is really important to us. It has been shown that ordering the workplace improves performance and consequently increases the joy we get from our work.

When you get rid of all the unnecessary and have a well-ordered workspace, you’ll see your energy renewed.

 

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3. Avoid excesses.

When we are inundated with things, information and tasks, our brains get overwhelmed and we lose our sense of control and the ability to choose. We are no longer able to take the initiative or choose our actions, we forget that work is a means to realize our dreams and aspirations and we lose our love for our work.

 

4. Embrace minimalism

In relation to the previous point, excess belongings are often friends with disorder and chaos. Remember the premise of “less is more” to apply it to all areas of your life. Stop accumulating the tickets and invoices you save just in case, delete old emails and throw away everything you no longer need. Here you have a Netflix series about Minimalism.

 

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5. Take breaks.

From time to time you have to stop and perform some muscle stretches. And let’s not forget to let the email rest too.

 

Remember: sort your workplace to keep your mind and ideas neat.

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

In Espai 114 we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

 

 

The Meeting Room that suits you

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On several occasions we have talked about coworking and the benefits of working in a coworking like ours in Badalona,but today we will focus on our multipurpose space, the meeting room with capacity for 20 people. Let’s explain what it is and why it’s so interesting.

The room is located on the ground floor of our local Espai 114. Its open space is specially designed to offer different functions and adapt to changes and all kinds of needs.

Thanks to its large space, the interpersonal distance can be maintained correctly, thus respecting the security measures so necessary in this situation.

 

The possibilities of the Hall are many, so we call it our multipurpose room. We can use it to hold business meetings with all kinds of equipment. We have organized meetings in it, talks i has also been used to teach courses of all kinds of specialties. You can book it for events and even to celebrate afterworks after a long day.

 

meeting room

 

We do not forget to mention that the meeting room is equipped with projector, videoconferencing system, WiFi, coffee maker, catering service and all kinds of furniture to organize the event that you have in mind.

We give you the option to rent exclusively the space of La Sala, or rent all the available space, that is, the two floors of Espai 114. We adapt to your needs depending on the number of people or the type of event you plan to organize. We talk with you and agree on the option that best suits you.

Here you will find more information about La Sala and also a small form so you can let us know what you need and how we can help you.

 

Meetings

 

In our last post we talked about flexiworking, its advantages and everything you should know about it. Click here if you if you are interested in informing yourself.

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

In Espai 114 we are team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

 

Cost of setting up a business

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What is the cost of establishing a business? Before investing the first euro in your future business, plan all the investment it will entail. In addition, you can see how you can finance in this post that we wrote on the blog.

According to the Expansion Dictionary, the costs of establishing a business are those that are accurate for the creation of the company and for the start of its activities, associated with the start-up of a commercial or industrial activity (such as studies, transfers, trademarks or patents), and which are carried out to the asset as a good of the company.

Forecasting results

How much could you sell in a month? From Espai114 we help you with our entrepreneurship tools,where you can find the business plan that we offer you for free.

 

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Detailing expenses

We want to list the actual expenses to start with a business. The items that generate the most fixed costs are those of the space and in human resources.

The costs of premises include a periodic lease, the deposits of the same, the conditioning works, the construction project, the furniture, the costs related to the maintenance of the premises: water supplies, electricity, telephone, cleaning and maintenance. You should also have a computer, a software to work with, a POS and a website, or online store… this would be joined by a computer service. Investing in an insurance policy and alarm system will save you a lot of headaches. When you start a business you also have to pay for municipal licenses, fees and taxes.

As for expenditures on human resources, you will have to budget payroll and premiums, depending on the number of workers you will have, in addition to the costs of the self-employed and the hiring of legal / labor / tax counseling. Travel and diets should also be taken into account.

To all the above you will have to add the expenses of banking services and financial expenses such as credit cards, or a vehicle or vehicles for the company, whether rental or own.

After all this great investment, you can not ignore other types of expenses characteristic of your activity, purchase of stock, courier services, logistics…

Put yourself in a situation

Thanks to the business plan we talked about earlier, you can make a feasibility plan and budget for what you’ll enter in the first year, even the next three. The key to viewing your business is knowing your fixed and variable expenses, how you will finance, how and when you will charge, etc.

 

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Renting a space in our Business Center will save many of these expenses and especially part of your time in contracting supplies, renovating a premises or buying the furniture. You have the option to rent a table in our coworking to start your activity, or if you are more than one or your business requires it, a private office.

 

Are you clear about the cost of setting up a business?

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

In Espai114 we are a team; We want to inspire you and accompany you.

Advantages of flexiworking

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Flexiworking.

The socio-labor reality has changed in the last decade and this year, 2020, the change has been radical.

Companies have adapted and changed their approach to valuing their workers. Efficiency is now more important than your workplace presence.

There are always resolute and organized people who in three hours can do the work that another colleague would do in five. And, for this reason, the concept of flexiworkingor flexible work was born.

This concept gives importance to the well done job, where do not matter programs or fixed offices and it is possible to work remotely or choose which days to work. Days off, vacations, schedules, and even the workplace are likely to adapt to the worker’s needswithin a more or lesser area.

Banco Santander implemented this practice in 2019.

 

ADVANTAGES OF FLEXIWORKING

 

flexiworking performance

 

Productivity

The worker can take advantage of his most energy-efficient hours to meet his work obligations. Studies conclude that working from home increases productivity by 15%.

 

Motivation

Workers feel the company trusts them. Your happiness and well-being increase as the bond with your company grows stronger.

This motivation makes your performance and effort greater and, as a result, increases productivity.

 

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Reducing expenses

Companies that have part of the workforce teleworking may consider reducing their fixed costs. In addition, workers also reduce expenses, as they can save on commuting.

 

Conciliation

Job flexibility allows to respond to the demanded conciliation between working life and personal and family life. Choosing working hours, adapting rest times to personal needs, and being able to work from home represent a significant reduction in stressin workers.

 

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More adaptation

Technology and Internet enable connection to work anytime, anywhere in the world, opening up a huge range of possibilities for the worker that translates into high levels of well-being and quality of life.

The worker can work from coworking spaces surrounded by people outside his company and take advantage of it to create synergies with them.

From Espai 114 we adapt to your teleworking needs and time flexibility, we are available for you and your company 24/7, every day of the year.

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

In Espai 114 together we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

 

Entrepreneurship Tools (Part Two)

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As we told you in the previous entry, there are free entrepreneurship tools that will make it easier for you to manage your new business.

 

In it, we discovered free management tools with you such as LastPass,the Official Journal of the Generalitat de Catalunya and WeTransfer.

 

In this issue, we’ll focus on work tools for your day-to-day life.

 

Videoconferences

We are in a situation where face-to-face meetings have moved to the background and seeing our colleagues through a screen has become part of our normalcy.

 

Zoomis a program that lets you connect with colleagues or customers virtually. In its free version, it will allow us up to 100 participants and a maximum duration of the meeting of 40 minutes.

 

Far from being a limitation, this time limit can help us maximize meeting productivity, focusing on important points and avoiding distractions.

 

Shared storage

Teamwork can be complicated if teammates work from different locations. Having different documents, or different versions of it, can cause confusion.

 

Tools like Google Drive allow us to upload files and folders in a shared cloud. In addition, this one specifically works as an Office package and we can use it to create Word or Excel documents that will then be editable by all.

 

Design

If we manage our company’s social networks by ourselves or need to create a poster or flyer quickly and easily, there is one tool that will help us: Canva.

 

This intuitive tool will allow you to create your designs from countless free templates of all kinds: posters, postcards, logos, presentations, gift vouchers, infographics and many more.

 

Its interface allows us to create and modify the designs with the drag-and-drop system that will make the work much easier.

 

Now you know three other free entrepreneurship tools to help you in your new business.

Do you want to know them all? Click here.

 

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

 

In Espai 114 we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.

 

 

Entrepreneurship Tools (Part One)

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Do you know that there are free entrepreneurship tools that will make it easier for you to manage your new business?

To be entrepreneur. According to the RAE, to undertake and start a work, a business, an endeavor, especially if they are difficult.

 

It is because of this intrinsic difficulty in its definition that all help is good at starting a new business.

 

From accounting issues, management issues or work tools to communication platforms. All these aspects of the day-to-day life of your company, and many more, you can manage them easily through a large number of online programs or guides and documents that we provide for free.

 

Here are some examples:

 

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Password manager

Starting a new business involves, in most cases, creating accounts on numerous websites or platforms,which we will need to develop our activity. Examples include Social Media accounts, email accounts or access data to our website.

 

At first there won’t be many accounts to remember, but over time the number will increase and our memoristic ability can play us a bad trick.

 

To help us with that, there are tools like LastPass that will simplify our workby securely storing all our accounts and passwords in one place All protected by a single master password.

 

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Work calendar

All beginnings involve effort and dedication, but they also deserve days offto recharge the batteries.

 

For this reason we provide you with the Official Journal of the Generalitat de Catalunya,in which the days established as a work party are reflected.

 

Sharing documents

It is common the situation of having to send a file to customers, suppliers or other people related to our company, but when trying to do so by email we get a notice similar to “the size of the attachments exceeds the maximum allowed”.

 

This is where WeTransfer saves us. With its free tool, we can send files up to 2 GB to whoever we want and in a very easy and intuitive way.

 

You can find the full list of free entrepreneurship tools we offer by clicking here.

In an upcoming entry we will explain the details of more useful tools for your business.

 

 

We are the Business Center of Badalona, to give visibility and possibilities to your business.

 

In Espai 114 we are a team; we want to inspire you and accompany you.