Search Office Space Set To Increase Turnover For Serviced Office Operators With The Launch Of Meetingrooms.com

Online, November 11, 2013 (Newswire.com) - With meeting rooms standing vacant for 50% of the time according to a study by the Global Workspace Association, leading flexible office solutions broker, Search Office Space (SOS), announced today that it will launch MeetingRooms.com. Set up to help meeting room providers increase revenue from their empty space. It also announced the appointment of serviced office/meeting room industry veteran, Caleb Parker, as CEO. SOS, who are about to celebrate their 20th anniversary, plans to launch the new product in the first quarter of 2014.

With the web address www.meetingrooms.com receiving the full back up of SOS global marketing resources, Business Centre operator partners will benefit from a substantial number of pre-paid bookings that Meetingrooms.com will generate. Operators will be able to login to a dashboard and have full control over their meeting room inventory and rates.

"Many of our partners have told us that their meeting rooms are an underutilised product," says Richard Smith, founder and CEO of Search Office Space, "With the growing number of requests for on-demand meeting rooms, and the sheers size of the meeting room marketplace, we see this as a huge opportunity for SOS partners to maximize their vacant spaces. We will be putting the full resources of the SOS global team behind MeetingRooms.com to ensure it becomes a household name for businesses of all sizes. And I have no doubt that this process will expedited by the appointment of Caleb, who we are delighted to have recruited to spearhead this project."

Three major trends are coming together to create an increased demand for meeting rooms within the serviced office industry: 1) Widespread adoption of mobile technology; 2) the rise in entrepreneurship; 3) the fiscal need for established businesses to reduce their real estate footprints by implementing agile workspace strategies.

According to a KMPG Study, "60% of businesses have increased their use of virtual workspaces while 48% of businesses have reduced their reliance on physical office premises," shifting to on-demand space usage. While virtual working is quickly becoming the norm, the need for physical space is not going away anytime soon; the need is simply shifting to as-needed.

The company has appointed Caleb Parker as CEO. Parker brings a diverse background of experience, including 12 years in the hospitality industry and nearly 7 years in serviced office space, including time with Regus, Executive Space Solutions and TouchdownSpace.

"I'm really excited to join Richard and the team to create an excellent product with an amazing brand identity that will serve our industry and customers for years to come," said Parker.

Parker is a leading advocate for serviced office space, spreading his "on-demand workspace" message at numerous conferences, social media, panel discussions and various blogs. He joins MeetingRooms.com from TouchdownSpace, a company he co-founded to create the first global distribution system for the serviced office space industry.