Why Spaces works for Slough

Spaces The Porter Building is not your average serviced office with beige walls and uniform desks. Spread over five floors, it’s a trendy and eco-conscious setting for future-facing workers: its mix of communal tables, cosy booths, Scandi lounges, open-plan zones for coffee meetings and super-fast Wi-Fi have upped the ante for Slough office space. There’s a bold use of colour (think pink armchairs and lemon couches), pot plants and framed prints of camper vans on the wall, which combine to give the feel of a boutique hotel aimed at millennials.

From the upper levels, workers can look down into the building’s dramatic atrium, around which conferences suites and office spaces are positioned. Looking for meeting rooms in Slough? Look no further. At ground level it’s planted with trees and there is an inviting, sunlit reception area for catch-ups. By opening up the core of the site in this way, it creates a sense of space and light, enhancing productivity and wellbeing among professionals. Meanwhile, on the roof of Spaces is a sizeable garden terrace, complete with a bar, that can be used for break-outs or hired for parties in the evening. Beneath the foundations are underground parking, bike storage and electric car-charging points; and even if it’s just a virtual office address in Slough you need, Spaces can handle that too.

CENTRALLY LOCATED

Located just 30km west of central London, office space in Slough is in high demand with the biggest concentration of global corporate headquarters in the UK based here – making it a hotspot for business. Not only are US software company McAfee and Swiss biotech company Lonza based here, but it also features one of Europe’s largest industrial parks with over 400 firms including Mars, Telefonica O2, Ferrari, Virgin Media, Yell and DHL. It’s also a great place to live, with property prices cheaper than London and new luxury developments such as New Eton House from SevenCapital coming up (Eton College is close by, on the south side of the Jubilee River).

Over the last few years, Slough has received more than £1.5bn in investment to improve public spaces, retail offerings, housing and leisure sites such as the £22m Curve cultural hub and Slough Ice Arena, which opened in 2018, as well as £1bn for regeneration of the town centre. In 2021 Crossrail will be opening a station on its high-speed rail network. When up and running, four Elizabeth Line trains an hour in each direction will serve Slough, giving commuters the ability to whizz directly into central London without having to change trains. Also coming in the same year will be a dual-branded Moxy and Residence Inn hotel from Marriott International.

MOVING ON UP IN SLOUGH

As anyone who is a regular user of Spaces Slough knows, lifestyle is incredibly important to 21st-century businesspeople, which is why they are attracted not only to this full-service workplace but also the buzzing destination. Times have moved on since BBC mockumentary The Office, which was set here in the early noughties, and it has been ranked one of the best places in the country to work by job-review site Glassdoor.com When it comes to downtime, Windsor Castle is only 15 minutes’ drive away, and there are plenty of golf courses for swingers.

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