The Virtual Office Concept

When we developed our ‘office on demand’ systems in the early 1980’s, the idea was little developed and little understood. In England, Roger Nissen developed a firm called the Virtual Office in London, and that characterization has stuck.

Today, a variety of services go under the title ‘virtual office’. Some are basically phone answering and communications coordination services. Some such firms have links to physical office space, of varying closeness or looseness.

O.S.I. Management combines in one facility telecommunications management systems, offices and conference rooms to be used as needed, mail services, and related services. Any client using any of our various services has access to office space, on demand.

We refer to ‘telecommunications management’, because we can coordinate telephone answering and telephone message transfers, fax communication, email, website space, and other services. We can convert voicemail to email, fax to email, physical mail to email, and of course email to various forms of email. We can do teleconferences for you.

‘Virtual office’ systems are closely linked to the ‘mobile office’ idea. With current and developing IT capabilities, individuals, entrepreneurs, and organizations of many sorts can perform and combine many of the functions traditionally performed in offices at home, on the road, on the go. We give you a physical and organizational hub to which you can link, so that when you need any of the traditional functions performed for you, or with you, we can help.

As ‘virtual officing’ developed, some tended to think there would be no ‘there’ there, when it came to officing. With OSI, you have a physical office, personal assistance, and ‘office’ equipment, when you need it. Your ‘virtual office’ is a real and substantial office capability, available at your beck and call.