What if you could work remotely in the countryside, brainstorm in the city, and keep the connection? Discover the new, freer and more collective work balance.
If someone had told you in 2019 that you would end up running your professional projects out in the green, from a house 1 or 2 hours from Paris… Enjoying your breaks in your garden, while still brainstorming and meeting up with your team in city venues other than your monotonous office… You would have been intrigued! (We can see your eyebrow going up from here)
And yet. Work no longer happens “at the office”, but between home, online… and in venues designed to bring people together. Neither open space nor endless video calls: companies choose the right place, at the right time, for each type of exchange.
1. Fibre, a garden and a train ticket to a big city!
Gone are the days when you went to the office just to “put in an appearance”. Remote work has reshuffled the cards. You now come on site for what you cannot do remotely:
👉 sealing a real strategic decision
👉 running or experiencing a seminar, to align the teams
👉 taking part in a team building to tighten the bonds again
👉 organising a brainstorming session, the ideal occasion to create the collective spark
Those moments are essential to the team's success and well-being (a major asset), and they have to be nurtured. But above all made accessible to everyone, even to those who have chosen to move away from urban centres such as Paris, Brussels or Madrid.
At Comet, that is why we have chosen venues right at the heart of the mobility and business hubs: the Cœur Défense tower, the Bercy district or close to the place de l'Étoile. Where paths cross easily by train, by RER or by metro.
Because, even if offices have become an occasional destination for some, professional events remain essential to the fulfilment of employees (and of their ideas).
2. The 10th is increasingly giving way to the well-located house.
It is no longer an exodus, but a sought-after and fully assumed balance. You leave Paris, but not quite. You take the best of both worlds. You live better in the green, you breathe more, you gain in surface area but also in serenity. All without sacrificing your professional life and the opportunities that urban centres can offer.
Some players in real estate, such as Pretto, are noting a real shift in buying criteria. Many buyers are now aiming for properties that are “connected but in the green”!
The ideal project is a house with fibre, located 15-20 minutes from a station, far from the cramped top-floor flats with no lift in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. This trend is part of a deep change in lifestyle: every year, many people leave the Paris region to settle in rural or peri-urban areas.
The choice is clear: more space, more serenity, without giving up professional life.
And the figures speak for themselves:
👉 For an equivalent budget, some buyers multiply their living space by 4.
👉 The price per m² in Île-de-France reaches €4,550, against €3,060 as a national average, and sometimes less than €2,000 in rural areas. That is a gap of x2 to x3 depending on the territory.
👉 The cost of everyday life gets significantly lighter: in Paris, energy expenses are on average 21.4% higher than in the provinces,
Which makes it possible, outside the capital, to allocate more resources to other projects, to leisure…
What matters is the connection, not the location.
We have never lived so much outside offices, but we have never needed to come together. That is the new rhythm of work: flexibility, mobility, but also deeply human.
At Comet, we welcome those who have changed the scenery without wanting to give up the collective. Because professional events make it possible to live human experiences.
