Old pictures ? walking down a street and seeing the lawyer shingle by a door, next the dentist?s door, next the insurance agent, etc. Slightly less old, put the same progression in an office building, down a hall on a floor.

These scenes still exist, but in modern, and even not so modern, office buildings in towns and cities from modest to large, office space has been getting much more finely sliced and diced. Many different ways of doing ?officing? have been evolving.

As this evolution rolls on, the idea of ?sharing? offices has been a part of the conceptual mix. Take that hall in an office building. Close off a floor of the building, put in a reception area, a conference room or two, reception staff, and a space for a copier, and ?share? these common use facilities among many different businesses. Saves a lot of expense as compared from each business on the floor having its own of all these things. This way of doing things was once called an ?executive suite?, but now is more often termed an office business center.

Refine this concept two or three ways. You find that in a world of low computation and communication costs and high mobility, many businesses do not need to use an ?office? all day every day. They just need a touchdown place, for meetings, or meetings and mail service, perhaps combined with some communications handling like phone answering. This is sometimes called ?virtual officing?, though the office is real, just time-shared.

And there are many additional variations ? ?co-working? suites, closed cubicles, open arrays of desks and tables, and on and on.

What is the ?bottom line? for your own business or trade? You have the opportunity to draw that line yourself. You might start off with two centers of thought.

The first is what you do and how you might like to do it. Given the computing and communication equipment, and other equipment or tools, which you can buy or rent, given your customers, and given your personal preferences, what do you really need from some sort of ?office?, if anything? Just an address to designate for business correspondence, and/or meetings? Some specialized skills? Getting away from the house to have a place to concentrate on the business? You have lots of tools out there. What do you want or need to do with them?

The second is a wide variety of officing options in a proliferating market. You can surf the net with various search terms ? office space, office rental, virtual officing, on demand officing, business center, and more. Read the ads carefully. Talk with friends. You might need to visit some sites. Approach the market as an expedition, so to speak. Get behind the offers. What is really there? How does it work? What kinds of configuration can be constructed? How much flexibility can you have? You are looking for the most cost-effective set of matchups between what you need to do to get and to service customers, and different ways of doing officing.

Office sharing, or shared offices, is a lot of things these days. You can draw your own bottom line. And it may be much more economical than you would at first assume.

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