Bangkok--20 Aug--Piton Communication
Never a dull meeting
Wait… where do you want to meet? Regus finds that Thai businesspeople know no bounds when seizing on a spot to meet
Although it is rare nowadays to step into a coffee shop without seeing at least one meeting in full swing, flexible working for some Thai executives can be more of an intrepid experience. In a new survey, they have revealed that they are all but traditional in their choice of meeting location. More than 26,000 respondents from over 90 countries were asked the strangest place where they had ever had a business meeting, with the oddest venues including a convent, an old railway tunnel, a nursery and a maggot farm.
Some of the locations revealed by the study seem more suited to an action-packed thriller, others indicate that there’s literally nowhere that businesspeople consider off-limits for a meeting; they include in an airline hangar, on a submarine, down a mine, in an out-of-service elevator and on an old shrimper.
Some of the more unusual venues reported in Thailand were a tin shack, an amusement park, a farm, a warehouse in Moscow and the Himalayas. More common grab-a-meeting venues seem to be coffee shops and hotel rooms, while planes and airports are also popular choices reflecting the international nature of business today. However, it gets curiouser: toilets and bathrooms feature and at least one person reported having a business meeting in a subway station.
On the upside, karaoke bars, restaurants and boats all feature, showing that business meetings aren’t always such hard work.
Top 10 Strangest Meeting Places Globally
In the bath
At a cycling event
In a cave
A rubbish dump
At a wedding banquet
On a sleigh during a sleigh ride
A Brussels sprout field
On a Navy warship
In a shed
In an office pantry
Although peaceful and quiet, it is unlikely that caves will become a hit any time soon! A wedding banquet, however, would be far more palatable.
John Henderson, Regional Director of Regus APAC comments: “The strange places that people find themselves in for business meetings, from bathrooms to abandoned buildings and beaches show just how open-minded and flexible people have become in the business world. The venues revealed in this research may not be to everyone’s liking, and some certainly give pause for thought in terms of safety and professionalism. Luckily for less adventurous professionals, a huge network of professional and productive meeting places is available around the world helping them focus on targets rather than their unusual surroundings.”
About Regus:
Regus is the world's largest provider of flexible workplaces, with products and services ranging from fully equipped offices to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the world's largest network of video communication studios. Regus enables people to work their way, whether it's from home, on the road or from an office. Customers such as Google, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nokia join hundreds of thousands of growing small and medium businesses that benefit from outsourcing their office and workplace needs to Regus, allowing them to focus on their core activities.
Over 1,300,000 customers a day benefit from Regus facilities spread across a global footprint of 1,500 locations in 600 cities and 99 countries, which allow individuals and companies to work wherever, however and whenever they want to. Regus was founded in Brussels, Belgium in 1989, is headquartered in Luxembourg and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
For more information please visit: www.regus.com