Extended definitions.
A longer reference covering specific services and concepts mentioned across the site: short-term office spots, virtual office, fax and voice-to-mail, fibre optic, daily management, H.Q.E, low-cost, pooling, hotline, soft landing, telesecretariat, advertising bikes.
Extended definitions
- Short-Term Office Spots
- Furnished private offices rented for a short period — by the hour, the half-day, the day or the week. The flexible cousin of monthly office rental. See our Office Spot offer.
- Virtual Office bureau virtuel
- The combination of domiciliation + remote services (mail forwarding, phone answering, occasional meeting-room access) that lets a business operate professionally without a permanent physical space. Our Pack Light + extras essentially configures a virtual office.
- Voice-to-Mail · Fax-to-Mail
- Two of our teleservices. Voice-to-Mail: callers leave a message that arrives in your inbox as an audio file. Fax-to-Mail: faxes arrive as PDFs in your inbox. Both eliminate the need for physical hardware on your end.
- Fibre Optic fibre optique
- The centre is connected to a fibre-optic link — the basis of our teleservices stack and a guarantee of stable bandwidth for video-conferences, large file transfers and hosted phone systems.
- Daily Management
- The set of routine tasks that keep a business running — credit control, administrative paperwork, supplier follow-up, basic accounting. We can take this on under Management Assistance.
- H.Q.E Haute Qualité Environnementale
- A French certification for environmentally high-quality buildings — energy efficiency, sustainable materials, indoor air quality, water management. Increasingly relevant for tenants with ESG commitments.
- Low Cost
- Our positioning across the range — services are priced for smaller structures (founders, SMEs, freelancers) rather than for corporate budgets. The word doesn't refer to quality but to access: we make professional services available to businesses that wouldn't otherwise reach them.
- Pooling mutualisation
- The economic principle behind a business centre: shared infrastructure (reception, fibre, meeting rooms) costs less per tenant than each tenant building their own. Pooling is what makes coworking economically viable.
- Hotline numéro d'assistance
- A telephone helpline service — scripted, with opening hours and a log of calls. We can operate one in your name, bilingual, for your end-customers.
- Soft Landing
- A common term in the international-business world for the support package given to a founder relocating to a new country: practical help on the early weeks (paperwork, banking, housing, schools, networking). Our location-advice and bilingual reception form part of a soft landing in Montpellier.
- Telesecretariat télésecrétariat
- Remote secretarial services — call answering, message dispatch, calendar management — done by a person rather than software. The combination of our Telephone Services and Secretariat.
- Advertising Bikes
- An innovative and ecological street-marketing medium — branded bicycles carrying advertising panels, circulating in high-footfall areas of the city. More visible than a poster, lighter on the city's air than a van. See Street Marketing.
A workspace with a low environmental footprint
A workplace designed to limit its impact, without compromising comfort.
The centre's environmental approach is concrete: energy, waste and mobility are all designed to cut its footprint.
- Responsible digital: mail is digitised to limit postal shipments and resource use.
- Less plastic, more sorting: single-use plastic removed (rooms, drink machines, supplies), reusable tableware (mugs, eco-cups) and paper/cardboard recycling.
- Short supply chains: reused furniture, local sourcing for the restaurant and a stand against food waste.
- Energy autonomy: through 3,000 m² of photovoltaics, the site generates as much electricity as it uses, with a low-consumption design.
- Six hens, zero waste: the restaurant's food scraps feed six hens kept on site, which produce eggs that are donated in return — a short loop that sharply cuts waste, with no single-use items left.
- Low-carbon travel: a cycle path to come by bike and EV charging points.
Questions fréquentes
What is a virtual office?
The combination of domiciliation plus remote services (mail forwarding, phone answering, occasional meeting-room access) that lets a business operate professionally without a permanent physical space. Our Pack Light plus extras essentially configures a virtual office.
What are Voice-to-Mail and Fax-to-Mail?
Two of our teleservices. Voice-to-Mail: callers leave a message that arrives in your inbox as an audio file. Fax-to-Mail: faxes arrive as PDFs in your inbox. Both eliminate the need for physical hardware on your end.
What does pooling mean in a business centre?
Pooling (mutualisation) is the economic principle behind a business centre: shared infrastructure (reception, fibre, meeting rooms) costs less per tenant than each tenant building their own. Pooling is what makes coworking economically viable.
What is a soft landing?
A common term in the international-business world for the support package given to a founder relocating to a new country: practical help in the early weeks (paperwork, banking, housing, schools, networking). Our location advice and bilingual reception form part of a soft landing in Montpellier.
What are advertising bikes?
An innovative and ecological street-marketing medium — branded bicycles carrying advertising panels, circulating in high-footfall areas of the city. More visible than a poster, lighter on the city's air than a van.
Can we arrange coffee breaks and catering during our event?
Absolutely. You can have welcome coffee served in the room, breakfast with pastries, a tea-time break with biscuits, lunch at the on-site restaurant with terrace, meal trays served in the room, and a buffet or cocktail dinner on quotation.
Does the site produce the electricity it uses?
Indeed it does. The roof of Espace Entreprise Garosud carries over 3,000 m² of solar panels, allowing it to produce as much electricity as it consumes. The buildings are built to minimise energy use.
Is plastic limited and waste separated at the centre?
Yes. The centre has done away with single-use plastic across meeting rooms, drink machines and supplies, relies on reusable tableware (mugs, eco-cups), and sorts and recycles paper and cardboard.
How many offices in total across the two centres?
Espace Entreprise Garosud, the largest business centre in Occitanie, counts 75 equipped offices and 70 industrial units. Millénaire, in Castelnau-le-Lez, counts 40 offices. Together, 115 offices across the two Montpellier addresses.