[1] Pioneers of the serviced office industry in the United States are recorded as early as the 1960s, with the creation of OmniOffices in 1962, followed by the launch of Paul Fegen's furnished law suites for attorneys in 1966.
[citation needed] The advances in computer technology during the 1980s reduced the amount of staff required to operate a serviced office, and increased the technologies a serviced office could offer its clients, including access to computers, voicemail, and fax machines.
Richard Nissen founded Business Space Ltd. in London in 1980 and was a pioneer of the new digital exchange telecommunications system that used electronics to place and transfer telephone calls.
Seminal reports on the industry were carried out by DTZ in the early 2000s, and published with the British Council for Offices.
[10] Coworking spaces are a branch of serviced offices that add elements of collaboration and community to the workspace.