New way of perceive time

A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that those who worked 55 hours per week performed more poorly on some mental tasks than those who worked 40 hours per week.

People work best in intense 90-minute bursts followed by periods of recovery. Taken together, these findings suggest that with the right scheduling of bursts and rests, workers could get a similar amount of work done over a shorter period of time.

Moreover, there’s some anecdotal evidence that a four-day workweek might increase productivity. When you have a compressed workweek, you tend to focus on what’s important. Constraining time encourages quality time: better work gets done in four days than in five.

That said, the five-day workweek might already have so much cultural indolence that it can’t be changed. Most companies can’t just tell employees not to come in on Fridays, because they’d be at a disadvantage in a world that favors the five-day workweek.

There’s also the simple economics of the four-day week, as seen in Utah. When the lights are on four days instead of five, and employees need to make the commute two fewer times, costs are lowered.

It is really interesting to investigate different kinds of behavior on work, it could be a real revolution worldwide to reorganize working hours not only for shops but especially for offices.

Starting from Jan 1st 2016, instead of working on Saturdays, Centre O – Wanchai office – is keeping free on the weekends and let rest up its staff.

To be always available and present for its clients, we decided to extend our opening offices hours until 7 instead of 6 pm, to give the possibilities to clients to come in our offices without any rush or swearing in the traffic.

For us it is really important that our staff is happy, and happy means more productive: our priority are your needs.

Having the weekend completely off, they can enjoy time with their families and saving more energies to spend during the working hours.

For more inquiries please click on the following links:

http://centreo.hk/virtual_office
http://centreo.hk/serviced_office
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No, You Shouldn’t Obsess Over Being Perfect – Especially When Starting Up

The definition of entrepreneur is all about a person who organizes and operates a business taking on greater than normal financial risks. If you are investing in your business and you can’t see an immediate return, it’s normal: keep working hard.

When your purpose is starting a business it’s easy to look at someone who is already doing it and try to reverse engineer their strategy.
In some cases, this is really useful. Learning from the experiences of successful people is a great way to accelerate your own learning curve.

The systems, habits, and strategies that successful people are using today are probably not the same ones they were using when they began. People might be influenced by a physical appearance but no one can argue with a solid work ethic.
Even if at first no one believes in you, people will learn to believe in your results.

Everyone of us can learn a lot from others: it doesn’t matter if someone is younger than us, has less experience but more studies or vice versa: listening and learning from others is always great and we should do it all the time.
Don’t worry if you don’t feel like a complete expert in the field yet. For the things you don’t yet know, you can find answers.

It could happened that comparing your situation to someone who is already successful can often make you feel like you lack the required resources to get started at all. If you look at their optimal setup, it can be really easy to convince yourself that you need to buy new things or learn new skills or meet new people before you can even take the first step toward your goals.

Some people believe that overcoming the fear of failure is entirely dependent on a person’s willingness and motivation to change. This should be a good incentive, not something that makes give you up. There will be plenty of time for optimization later.

When you’re an entrepreneur, it’s so easy to get obsessed with optimal. This is especially true at the start. For example, if you want to build your own website, don’t be obsessed with several type of complicated logo.
Your “logo” is just you: your name, your qualities and competences.

Great gear can make your life much easier on the road, but it’s not required.
You don’t need new shoes to start running.
You don’t need new cooking bowls to start eating healthy.
Those things might be optimal, but they are not needed in the beginning. You will be considered hasty.

Some people will think that you’re crazy to start a new business and they will be correct.
The safe and rational thing to do would be to never take a risk and work for someone else for the rest of your life.

It’s terrifying to take the risk of offering your skills to the world, wondering if they’ll be valued. Even if you won’t start your business with an established audience of people ready to throw money at you, don’t let visions of what is optimal prevent you from getting started in the first place.

An imperfect start can always be improved, but obsessing over a perfect plan will never take you anywhere on its own.
If you approach your business with joy and you believe in your capacities, in case you will fall don’t worry: you can set it up right again.

Come talk to us at info@centreo.hk or sales@centreo.hk if you are planning to start your business.

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NEW WAY OF PERCEIVE TIME

美国流行病学杂志的一项研究发现，每周工作 55 小时的人在某些脑力任务上的表现比每周工作 40 小时的人要差。
人们在 90 分钟的剧烈爆发中工作得最好，然后是恢复期。综上所述，这些发现表明，通过正确安排休息时间，员工可以在更短的时间内完成类似的工作量。
此外，有一些轶事证据表明，每周工作四天可能会提高生产力。当你有一个压缩的工作周时，你倾向于专注于重要的事情。限制时间鼓励优质时间：四天比五天完成更好的工作。
也就是说，五天工作制可能已经有太多文化上的懒惰，无法改变。大多数公司不能只告诉员工不要在周五上班，因为在一个支持五天工作制的世界里，他们会处于劣势。
正如犹他州所见，还有四天一周的简单经济学。当灯亮四天而不是五天时，员工需要减少两次通勤，成本就会降低。
调查不同类型的工作行为真的很有趣，这可能是一场真正的全球革命，不仅为商店而且特别是为办公室重新安排工作时间。
从 2016 年 1 月 1 日起，Centre O（湾仔办公室）不再在星期六工作，而是在周末保持空闲，让员工休息。
为了随时为客户提供服务，我们决定将营业时间延长至晚上 7 点而不是下午 6 点，让客户有机会进入我们的办公室，而不会在交通中出现任何匆忙或咒骂。
对我们来说，让我们的员工开心真的很重要，开心意味着更有效率：我们的首要任务是您的需求。
周末完全休息，他们可以享受与家人在一起的时光，并节省更多精力用于工作时间。
更多咨询请点击以下链接：
http://centreo.hk/virtual_office
http://centreo.hk/serviced_office
http://centreo.hk/blog

你不应该执着于完美——尤其是在刚开始的时候

企业家的定义是关于组织和经营企业承担高于正常财务风险的人。如果您正在投资您的业务并且看不到立即回报，这是正常的：继续努力工作。
当您的目的是创业时，很容易看到已经在做这件事的人，并尝试逆向设计他们的战略。
在某些情况下，这真的很有用。从成功人士的经验中学习是加速自己学习曲线的好方法。
成功人士今天使用的系统、习惯和策略可能与他们开始时使用的不同。人们可能会受到外貌的影响，但没有人可以与坚实的职业道德相抗衡。
即使一开始没人相信你，人们也会学会相信你的结果。
我们每个人都可以从他人身上学到很多东西：如果有人比我们年轻、经验少但学习更多，这并不重要，反之亦然：倾听和向他人学习总是很棒的，我们应该一直这样做。
如果您觉得自己还不是该领域的完整专家，请不要担心。对于你还不知道的事情，你可以找到答案。
可能发生的情况是，将您的情况与已经成功的人进行比较通常会让您觉得自己根本没有开始所需的资源。如果您查看他们的最佳设置，很容易让自己相信您需要购买新事物或学习新技能或结识新朋友，然后才能迈出实现目标的第一步。
有些人认为，克服对失败的恐惧完全取决于一个人改变的意愿和动力。这应该是一个很好的激励，而不是让你放弃的东西。以后有充足的时间进行优化。
当您是一名企业家时，很容易沉迷于优化，一开始尤其如此。例如，如果您想建立自己的网站，请不要沉迷于几种复杂的徽标。
你的“标志”就是你自己：你的名字、你的品质和能力。
出色的装备可以让您在旅途中的生活更加轻松，但这不是必需的。
你不需要新鞋就可以开始跑步。
您不需要新的烹饪碗即可开始健康饮食。
你会被认为是仓促的，这些东西可能是最佳的，但一开始并不需要它们。
有些人会认为你开始一项新业务是疯狂的，他们是对的。
安全和理性的做法是永远不要冒险并在你的余生中为别人工作。
冒着风险向世界展示你的技能，想知道他们是否会受到重视，这很可怕。即使您不会与准备向您投钱的成熟受众一起开始您的业务，也不要让最佳方案的愿景阻止您首先开始。
一个不完美的开始总是可以改进的，但痴迷于一个完美的计划永远不会让你自己走到任何地方。
如果您满怀喜悦地开展业务，并且相信自己的能力，万一您跌倒，请不要担心：您可以重新开始。
如果您打算创业，请通过 info@centreo.hk 或 sales@centreo.hk 与我们联系。
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NEW WAY OF PERCEIVE TIME

美国流行病学杂志的一项研究发现，每周工作 55 小时的人在某些脑力任务上的表现比每周工作 40 小时的人要差。
人们在 90 分钟的剧烈爆发中工作得最好，然后是恢复期。综上所述，这些发现表明，通过正确安排休息时间，员工可以在更短的时间内完成类似的工作量。
此外，有一些轶事证据表明，每周工作四天可能会提高生产力。当你有一个压缩的工作周时，你倾向于专注于重要的事情。限制时间鼓励优质时间：四天比五天完成更好的工作。
也就是说，五天工作制可能已经有太多文化上的懒惰，无法改变。大多数公司不能只告诉员工不要在周五上班，因为在一个支持五天工作制的世界里，他们会处于劣势。
正如犹他州所见，还有四天一周的简单经济学。当灯亮四天而不是五天时，员工需要减少两次通勤，成本就会降低。
调查不同类型的工作行为真的很有趣，这可能是一场真正的全球革命，不仅为商店而且特别是为办公室重新安排工作时间。
从 2016 年 1 月 1 日起，Centre O（湾仔办公室）不再在星期六工作，而是在周末保持空闲，让员工休息。
为了随时为客户提供服务，我们决定将营业时间延长至晚上 7 点而不是下午 6 点，让客户有机会进入我们的办公室，而不会在交通中出现任何匆忙或咒骂。
对我们来说，让我们的员工开心真的很重要，开心意味着更有效率：我们的首要任务是您的需求。
周末完全休息，他们可以享受与家人在一起的时光，并节省更多精力用于工作时间。
更多咨询请点击以下链接：
http://centreo.hk/virtual_office
http://centreo.hk/serviced_office
http://centreo.hk/blog

Happy Birthday Multi-Networking Business Community: celebrating 1 year on Meetup

Happy birthday Multi-Networking Business Community: celebrating 1 year on Meetup

In the last year Meetup became really well-known and used: but what it exactly is?

It is a social network useful to ease meetings between groups of people, linked by common interests all around the world. Just to list some of the most popular topics: from art museums, to accounting, from outdoor fitness to make up and detoxification, from dog to feng shui, and so on.

To start using it is really easy: go on official website, subscribe filling out your data and the place where you live and your interests, find communities closer to you, physically but not only.

Meetup helps you to know people with the same hobbies and it is really useful to create event too; meet other local small business owners, create your network, find new customers, get advices and avoid costly mistakes. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. Meetup reveal a very good instrument for business: on September 2nd Centre O Connect is proud of celebrating one tear using it to open its events to other people and reach a big share of market. With more than 1500 connectors in the 1st year we are still looking to grow our Multi-Networking Business Community more and more. New field of business, new way of doing it and new ideas can improve business of everyone would like to start a new activity.

We are working daily to expand our network and we aim to double our connector in the next year.  On Meetup we recommend our two key events (see the link):

Both events aim at give assistance and consultancy to new entrepreneurs and to people who are starting their new adventure in Hong Kong; for FREE you can have some professional advices and learn great tips, and meet with other like-minded people. They are two big resources for foreigners who don’t know from where to start their start-up businesses.

Don’t forget to bring a few name cards with you!

We would like to thank all our connectors for all the energy that you have brought.

It brings us joy to have had the privilege of witnessing the beginning of so many wonderful business relationship. Thank you all for joining our Meetup group! For us, it is important that everyone being happy: connectors and organizing team.

Stay tuned for our future networking events coming out in the following months on our MeetUp Page!!!!


多网络商业社区生日快乐：庆祝 1 年

多网络商业社区生日快乐：庆祝 1 年
在去年，Meetup 变得非常有名并被使用：但它到底是什么？
它是一个社交网络，有助于缓解由世界各地的共同利益联系在一起的人群之间的会议。列举一些最热门的话题：从美术馆到会计，从户外健身到化妆排毒，从养狗到风水等等。
开始使用它真的很容易：访问官方网站，订阅填写您的数据以及您居住的地方和您的兴趣，找到离您更近的社区，但不仅限于物理上。
Meetup 可以帮助您认识具有相同爱好的人，创建活动也非常有用；结识其他当地小企业主，建立您的网络，寻找新客户，获得建议并避免代价高昂的错误。听听其他人如何克服障碍并取得成功。聚会揭示了一个非常好的商业工具：9 月 2 日，Connect O 自豪地庆祝一滴眼泪，用它向其他人开放其活动并获得很大的市场份额。第一年就有 1500 多个连接器，我们仍在不断扩大我们的多网络业务社区。新的业务领域，新的做事方式和新的想法可以改善每个想要开始新活动的人的业务。
我们每天都在努力扩展我们的网络，我们的目标是在明年将我们的连接器翻一番。在 Meetup 上，我们推荐我们的两个关键事件（见链接）：
在香港创业：你需要知道的一切——（免费）和香港创业签证——这就是它被破解的全部内容吗？ 
这两项活动旨在为新企业家和在香港开始新冒险的人们提供帮助和咨询；您可以免费获得一些专业建议并学习重要技巧，还能结识其他志同道合的人。对于不知道从哪里开始创业的外国人来说，它们是两大资源。
别忘了带几张名片！
我们要感谢我们所有的连接器，感谢您带来的所有能量。
有幸见证了这么多美好业务关系的开始，让我们倍感欣慰。感谢大家加入我们的聚会小组！对我们来说，重要的是每个人都开心：连接器和组织团队。
请继续关注我们未来几个月在我们的 MeetUp 页面上推出的社交活动！！！！

A small reminder about Company Incorporation: basic rules and advises for shareholders and directors

A small reminder about Company Incorporation: basic rules and advises for shareholders and directors

There are some basic rules to follow if you are going to create your own business in Hong Kong even if, to do it here, it is easier and faster compared to other countries.

Anybody can form a Hong Kong Limited company.

A limited company is a legal entity made of up directors, secretaries, and shareholders (members).
The director is responsible for the day to day activities of the company.
The secretary is responsible for general government duties such as making sure annual returns are filed on time, notifying when there are any changes of the company, addresses change, etc.
The shareholder owns the company through holding of shares.
Hong Kong limited companies do not require a local shareholder or a director, they can all be living outside Hong Kong.

The minimum is to have one director as the shareholder as well.
A non-Hong Kong resident can be appointed as a director and as shareholder.
Shareholders can be of any nationality, be resident anywhere in the world and meetings can take place everywhere.

The Company Ordinance requires that an individual must be over the age of 18 years old to hold shares in a Hong Kong company limited.
Once a client of ours was opening his company and he would like to make his family an integral part of the business; when he asked us if his children of 3 years old could own some shares in the company, it is not possible to, he can include in the: he can include only his wife in his business but not his child as the child is below 18 years.

A Limited Company is the most commonly-used company type; the owner can take advantage of all the tax benefits and concessions available to any fully incorporated business.
For limited companies incorporated in Hong Kong, the company name must not be the same as a name appearing in the index of company names kept by the Companies Registry.

You may conduct a company name search free of charge before deciding which will be your company ones.

You cannot use a name that is already in use or in the process of being registered. Names already in use can be found in the Hong Kong Company Registry.
If you don’t find your company name in the Registry, it is free to use.

We will be glad to help you, for any inquiries don’t hesitate to contact us!

Please visit our webpage : http://centreo.hk/business_support

 

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关于公司注册的小提醒：股东和董事的基本规则和建议

关于公司注册的小提示：股东和董事的基本规则和建议
如果您打算在香港创建自己的企业，即使在这里开展业务比其他国家/地区更容易、更快捷，也需要遵循一些基本规则。
任何人都可以成立香港有限公司。
有限公司是由董事、秘书和股东（成员）组成的法人实体。
董事负责公司的日常活动。
秘书负责一般政府职责，例如确保按时提交年度报告，在公司发生任何变化时通知，地址变更等。
股东通过持有股份拥有公司。
香港有限公司不需要本地股东或董事，他们都可以居住在香港以外。
最少也有一名董事作为股东。
非香港居民可获委任为董事及股东。
股东可以是任何国籍，居住在世界任何地方，会议可以在任何地方举行。
《公司条例》规定，个人必须年满 18 岁才能持有香港有限公司的股份。
有一次我们的一位客户开设了他的公司，他想让他的家人成为公司不可或缺的一部分；当他问我们他 3 岁的孩子是否可以拥有公司的一些股份时，我们回复他，这是不可能的，他可以包括：他只能包括他的妻子，但不能包括他的孩子，因为孩子未满 18 岁年。
有限公司是最常用的公司类型；所有者可以利用任何完全注册的企业可获得的所有税收优惠和优惠。
对于在香港注册成立的有限公司，公司名称不得与公司注册处备存的公司名称索引中出现的名称相同。
在决定哪些是您的公司名称之前，您可以免费进行公司名称搜索。
您不能使用已经在使用或正在注册的名称。已在使用的名称可在香港公司注册处找到。
如果您在注册表中找不到您的公司名称，则可以免费使用。
我们很乐意为您提供帮助，如有任何疑问，请随时与我们联系！
请浏览我们的网页：http :  //centreo.hk/business_support
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Watch out for your Visa expiry date

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Everyday we manage many situations about Visa application and we collaborate with many offices for immigration procedures, we hear lots of different stories on China Visa.

In every countries to follow immigration rules strictly is the first thing we suggest to do or it could make you pass through very uncomfortable adventures.
Do not overstay.

This seems obvious, and although the punishments vary in severity, overstaying your visa at all may jeopardize any future visa applications. In most cases, you will get a written warning saying that you cannot overstay your visa again within a given period of time.

It happened that a US client of ours, living in China as tourist for more than 1 year overstayed twice in Tianjin. His first overstayed was back in May 2015. The officer was nice enough to give him an extension to Aug 8th 2015. However in August 8th, he only went into a random agency in Tianjin to ask for another Visa extension. The agent was too busy, that they asked him to come back on Monday August 11th instead of advising the US client to leave the country in the same night (August 8th).
They also said to him that 9th and 10th were weekends, no one will check his Visa status at all.

He came back home and without any worries he probably came out with his girlfriend to have a very good Italian pizza that evening.

On Monday afternoon August 11th, the client went back to the same agent. It was shocked for him that the agent took him to the police station and report of overstayed getting a fine of 4000 RMB and also to sign of a Chinese report that he could not read at all. He didn’t know the content of the report and gave his fingerprint, probably nobody (neither him certainly!) will never know: he signed for 60 days of prison in case he would overstayed once more.

He exited China and came to Hong Kong, thinking everything was fine and he can apply for an urgent tourist China Visa here. He went into the Embassy. The officers saw he was overstayed in China twice within 2015. They refused his application and told him not to go back for any application.

He was confused and came to us. After a few calls with the Embassy, basically the Embassy saw that Chinese report that he signed on August 11th that he was overstayed and can be sent to prison for 60 days. The Embassy only work via what the Visa label says, so this US citizen is not able to apply for any China Visa with the same passport again.

Be really careful if you are going to enter into the VISA’s territory!!

It could be full of tricks!!

Centre O Connect is at your complete disposal to help you in case you have any inquiries.

For more information about Visa application please visit our webpage:http://centreo.hk/blog