Sometime before the turn of the last century, at a time when email was still a novel way of doing business and many executives saw a private office with a secretary as a hallmark of career success, Laura Kozelouzek was trying to sell a service that many of her clients were ashamed to purchase.

Kozelouzek, who’s been working with companies that offer shared office space leases since the 1990s, is chief executive of her own concern, Quest Workspaces Management Inc.

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