Do you work from home? Have you come across a situation where you had to meet a ‘have-to-be-impressed’ client of yours and have regretted not owning an impressive office? Am sure when caught in such a situation, you would have opted what thousands of others do- Fix the meeting with this ‘have-to-be-impressed’ client of yours in a five star hotel; and ended your meeting on the note- ‘I will fax the relevant information’; and walked back thinking that for a short business meeting you had to lighten your pocket for a lavish lunch!!! Well…, the smarter ones opt for Virtual Office, end up the meeting on the note -‘Lets start immediately.’; and walk back home with a broad grin!!!  What is this Virtual Office? Virtual Office concept, which is quite common in the western part of the globe, is picking up fast in India too. It is basically an Office Space with complete infrastructure and human resource set up which is given out on rent on monthly or yearly basis; or can be hired on daily, hourly or even half hourly basis. The concept of Virtual Office is being embraced by most of the urban cities which are undergoing an economic boom but are experiencing an acute shortage of Office Space due to unavailability of land. The demand for Virtual Offices is typically from self employed professionals and small business owners who have limited budgets and thus can’t afford an independent office space; or an office big enough to have a separate Conference Room or have Video Conferencing facility. Virtual Office space provides an impressive fully-Furnished office building with built in conference rooms, cafeterias, personal cubicles and work stations. The buildings are equipped with all the regular office gadgets-24 hr internet, power back up, phone, fax, photocopy, scanning, video conferencing, ...all that could possibly be required by you anytime, to make your meeting ‘Oh-so-perfect!!!’.  24 hour security, CCTV, fire alarms, insurance cover are the other value added services covered under the office space. Not only this, the Office Space comes with its own helpful, knowledgeable staff which gives you the feel of owning the space. So if you require an office boy to run for your errands or an office secretary to receive your client on your behalf, you have them all.  The novelty of the Virtual Office space concept is that it saves the time and expense of office space, infrastructure and staff to those professionals who are always on the move, work from home or have too low infrastructure budget to have one. The concept has been designed keeping in mind the requirements of such professionals and as is evident, is rapidly catching up and becoming popular across the globe. In India, the concept is new and is at nascent stage, but is spreading up fast due to increase in the number of self-employed professionals, information technology boom, increasing shortage of Office Space and sky-high property prices.  Virtual Office in Delhi, India Gesco Corporate centre (GCC), a wing of Mahindra Lifespaces Developers Ltd (Real Estate arm of Mahindra and Mahindra Group), introduced the Virtual Office concept for the first time in India, way back in the year 1996.  Since then GCC has been the indisputable leaders in providing this service at a very economical rate.