A serviced office is an office or office building which comes fully equipped with desks etc and is managed by a special company. Companies will then rent floors or offices from the company. Services offices are often also know as managed offices, business centres or executive centres.

Serviced offices normally have fairly flexible rental terms and no long term commitment may be required. Serviced offices are popular because they take away the costs of things such as receptions, security and mail support. They are also good if the size of the office changes, or if other space is needed at short notice - it is easy to add a small serviced office component to your contract without too much hassles.

A serviced office normally has these benefits:
- full time security
- buildings insurance
- heating and cooling facilities
- telecomms already installed, including IT infrastructures
- furniture

For small businesses, serviced offices are often the best option however as the space needed increases, it is often better to move away from the serviced office model and to go towards a more conventional form of office space and rental.

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