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Company Elevates Work Experience To New Level

OnePiece Work is not your average shared-space property management firm. The Palo Alto company loans its resources to its membership base.

PALO ALTO, CA --With shared working spaces all the rage now, OnePiece Work in Palo Alto has stepped up its game in offering a peaceful and Zen-like experience to business.

About two years in operation, OnePiece is a new co-working company that serves as part property manager and part resources manager. The company leases space to small-office prospects as a liaison to the property owner. In its flagship Palo Alto location, the focus rests with the creation of a serene environment that provides a sense of tranquility at work. Floating tabletops, greenery, soft lighting and cushy, leather seating add to the design elements to accomplish this goal.

Tenants may just be in awe of is the wooden staircase seating which doubles as a bookcase wall for the adjacent room where members can drop off or borrow their favorite books.

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It's not your average workspace.

In 2017, more than 1.1 million people went to work with big ideas slinging backpacks at 13,800 co-working spaces worldwide, Entrepreneur reported.

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But the OnePiece experience doesn't end with the setting.

OnePiece also provides backup services ranging from marketing and recruitment to investment guidance and basic administrative assistance to alleviate the chaos and uncertainty of distractions and time-consuming tasks that take away from a small company's critical operations.

With its staff of marketers, admin personnel and community managers to tap into, OnePiece currently leases to more than 250 member firms settling in locations including Palo Alto, Santa Clara, San Jose, San Francisco and Santa Monica. The company expects to add Hollywood and Seattle as additional sites in the near future.

The incubator space has covered over 30 fields, including: AI, robotics, new retail, finance technology, online education, government platform, social network and gaming. The firm has hosted more than 200 multicultural events, with over 30,000 international visitors attending. Clients have come from Mitsubishi, Japan's Seiko, Samsung, Google, Osaka City Government, Fukuoka City Government, United Nation, Bank of Negara and Deutsche Bank, Temasek, West Point, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and China Europe International Business School.

"We want to be a good host," Director of Operations Johnny Yeh said, equating OnePiece to a quasi business version of Airbnb -- an online, international shared-space business.

To Yeh, he's running more than a property management firm. The company provides co-worker space but is also an incubator of innovation -- based in the land synonymous with the conceptual development.

"We want to provide a great (space) in the community for people to exchange ideas," Yeh said.

Call it an elevated Feng shui originating in the Silicon Valley.

The OnePiece vision and environment is just what RoboTerra Chief Executive Officer Yao Zhang was seeking when moving into the Palo Alto main office about a year ago.

The educational software tech firm sought ways to find investors in its robotic technological platforms and OnePiece delivered on its contacts through the shared resources gained by its partners and other members.

"Our membership with them allows my team to use their resources. OnePiece is a little comparable to our own office before, but in Palo Alto, there's more of an experience," Zhang said.

More information may be obtained by visiting https://www.onepiecework.com/.

--Images courtesy of OnePiece Work

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