Swappie scales international workspaces with Spacent

Spacent provides Swappie Oy with a workplace solution that keeps work flowing, manages costs and increases flexibility without long-term contracts or maintaining a fixed office abroad. As Swappie’s workspace needs abroad transformed, the easy scalability of Spacent’s service to provide just the right amount of workspaces, became noticeably valuable, says Emma Wheatley, Community Coordinator at Swappie.

Swappie, a company on a mission to make refurbished mainstream by giving used electronics a new life, took Spacent’s service into use when their team size decreased abroad and they closed down a fixed office. Closing down an office unfolded an increased demand for flexibility due to a sudden need of arranging workspaces for the team.

“With Spacent, we were able to scale down a location without having to physically be there, without employees losing an office space to work from and without long admin processes.”

With Spacent, Swappie was able to scale workspaces quickly. Choosing Spacent’s monthly plan, Swappie’s office management team saved time otherwise spent on lengthy negotiations and long-term commitments, while still providing remote teams with well-equipped workspaces. Wheatley was surprised by ability of easily adjusting the monthly plans to always include only what they needed, which is why she sees Spacent a suitable option for other remote teams in the future.

“It would be amazing to have all our remote teams using Spacent’s workspace network. Currently, some of the teams are still operating under existing contracts, but the direction is clear: less fixed office space, more choice and agility.”

Treating workspace as an on-demand service lets the company match capacity to need—city by city—cutting fixed costs and admin while enabling the provision of a professional working environment for employees. And that is why Spacent has been a great partner to Swappie while they scale their workspaces internationally.

Swappie Oy

📍Founded in Finland in 2015

🌍 Operates all around Europe

📱Focused in refurbishing and selling used smartphones and tablets

✨Uses Spacent to cut office costs, minimize time on office management and add flexibility while offering professional workspaces for their remote teams