As the way we work continues to evolve, the need for smart solutions for hybrid businesses grows — and King’s Cross stands out as a location that consistently delivers for hybrid businesses.
The perfect blend of unparalleled transport links, centrality of location, thriving cultural scenes, and excellent amenities, King’s Cross has become a magnet for forward-thinking companies and industry leaders in recent years.
Owing to its strategic position in the capital, King’s Cross offers everything a modern business needs to succeed. Read on to learn how Myo’s newest offices in King’s Cross provide the perfect foundation for hybrid business operations.
King’s Cross as a hybrid working hub
Often referred to as ‘the new normal’, 28% of employed adults in the UK are hybrid working (as of autumn 2024). As such, there has been a rapidly growing need for workplaces that can accommodate hybridised ways of working in recent years.
For businesses operating with hybrid models, their workspace needs to be able to allow for hybrid meeting setups with reliable technology, cater for different working arrangements (such as events, small meetings, and team working sessions), and much more. However, one of the most crucial elements of hybrid working is the commute. Flexible working means a departure from the regular 9-5 commute, requiring improved connectivity at all hours of the day.
King’s Cross has long stood as one of London’s most well-connected areas, making it the ideal spot for businesses embracing a hybrid work model. In the King’s Cross area, there’s direct access to six Underground lines, national rail services, buses, taxis, cycle routes, airports, and Eurostar connections. What’s more, King’s Cross is also flourishing in its culture, green spaces, and business community. Below, we’ll look at each of these features in turn.
Connectivity at King’s Cross
London King’s Cross is a major hub for national rail services, with eleven platforms providing direct routes to other core areas across the UK, such as Cambridge, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Leeds, Glasgow, Newcastle, Nottingham, and Sheffield.
Just a stone’s throw across the road is London St Pancras, an equally well-connected train station with links across the country in the form of the East Midlands Railway, Southeaster High-Speed, and Thameslink services.
Buses
The King’s Cross area is serviced by fourteen different bus routes, allowing for direct transport across London at cheap prices. As an above-ground complement to the services available by the tube, the network of buses around the King’s Cross area is extensive.
Within a fifteen-minute walk of Myo King’s Cross, you can find fifteen different bus stops, meaning you’ll never be short of a convenient way to get from A to B in this part of London.
Underground
Impressively, the King’s Cross St Pancras Underground station is the largest interchange on the entire London Underground network, connecting the following six lines:
- Circle Line
- Hammersmith & City Line
- Metropolitan Line
- Northern Line
- Piccadilly Line
- Victoria Line
Travelling further afield…
From King’s Cross, you can access a number of international travel options quickly and conveniently. The Piccadilly Line offers a direct route straight to Heathrow Airport (taking around 45 minutes), while Gatwick Airport can be reached via the Thameslink service from St Pancras International. Meanwhile, Luton Airport can also be reached by tube and train lines directly, with a Thameslink train leaving St Pancras for Luton Airport Parkway every 15 minutes and taking just 31 minutes in total. Lastly, if you’re travelling to and from Europe for meetings, the Eurostar connections from St Pancras International make it easy, offering high-speed trains to Amsterdam, Brussels, and Paris.
Whether you’re commuting in for an afternoon meeting or travelling abroad to meet a client, the diverse transport options and hive of connectivity characterising King’s Cross make flexible, hybrid working and the associate commuting a dream.
A neighbourhood that fosters work-life balance
Another factor making King’s Cross the perfect place to base a business is how the area is designed with work-life balance in mind.
King’s Cross is home to an impressive array of cafes, restaurants, sites of interest, retail outlets, and cultural landmarks, all of which provide outlets for employees to recharge and reset between meetings or at the end of a long day. There are also plenty of green spaces nearby — namely Gasholder Park and Lewis Cubitt Park — or outdoor meetings or a lung full of fresh air between meetings.
Recent redevelopments have transformed King’s Cross into an inviting blend of old and new, combining listed buildings with modern business headquarters in a sophisticated tapestry. Such a combination gives King’s Cross its reputation for being both inspiring and accommodating, making it the ideal spot for hybrid businesses that encourage their staff to be creative and curious.
An established business community
In recent years, the business landscape in King’s Cross has boomed and is now a hub for many industries, such as music, fashion, tech, and social media. Now, there exists a community of tech giants and other forward-thinking, like-minded businesses that occupy the beating heart of the area, creating a dynamic ecosystem that hybrid businesses can leverage.
The likes of The Guardian, Google, Nike London Central, Facebook, Sony, YouTube, AstraZeneca, and Universal Music Group will be your neighbours if you rent an office at Myo King’s Cross, creating natural networking and collaboration opportunities for hybrid clients — not to mention the prowess that comes with a prime location when impressing clients
Myo King’s Cross: designed with hybridity in mind
When it comes to our King’s Cross offices, located at 50 York Way (N19AB), we’ve carefully curated them to work for hybrid workers. Given the surge in popularity of hybrid working, workspaces need to cater for businesses operating with hybrid models and with employees joining online from all across the globe — and that’s exactly what we’ve done.
Below are just a few of the ways in which our workspaces work well for hybrid businesses.
- We have quality end-of-trip facilities, including changing rooms, showers, and cycle storage to support hybrid working, allowing for a seamless post-commute transition for employees who split their time between work and home.
- For hybrid workers looking to maximise their hours in the office, we have a fully-fitted gym and a yoga studio to allow employees to unwind and recharge through exercise when they need to.
- We offer a variety of different spaces because, for hybrid businesses, no two days are the same. From conferences to impromptu confidential video calls, we’ve got you covered with six stylish lounges, eleven bookable meeting rooms, private offices, a sleek events space, and a number of private phone booths.
- We facilitate organic conversation and natural collaboration in our office with tea points, extended breakout areas, and communal terraces for those important informal conversations.
Myo King’s Cross, in the heart of it all
King’s Cross embodies everything a modern, hybrid business needs in order to thrive and Myo’s King Cross offices take this a step further, offering flexible, sustainable workspaces designed with productivity and wellbeing in mind.
Discover how Myo King’s Cross can transform your business’s working experience and download our brochure or get in touch today to book a tour. In the meantime, keep up to date with the latest from Myo on our blog.
