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BSIS licensed officers for office towers, built around how buildings are actually occupied now rather than how they were occupied five years ago.
Office tower security used to be simple to plan. Busy lobby from eight until six, quiet building overnight, a predictable rhythm you could staff against. Hybrid working broke that. Tuesday is packed and Friday is nearly empty, tenants come and go at all hours, whole floors sit unoccupied mid week, and after hours access has gone from an exception to a daily routine.
We Guard Now provides office building security in Los Angeles for towers, multi tenant offices and corporate headquarters. Our officers are BSIS licensed and cover the full building: lobby and tenant access, lift banks, garage levels, loading dock, floors and roof. They control after hours access properly rather than waving through anyone with a badge, and they check vacant and part occupied floors, which is where problems now go unnoticed longest.
In the City of Los Angeles, non residential high rises must also have an LAFD approved Fire Safety Director or assistant on site during normal business hours under the city’s high rise emergency planning rules. Our officers work alongside that role so drills and evacuation plans stay practical. Whether you need one lobby officer or a full building team, we can usually have officers on post within 24 hours.
Tell us about the tower, the tenant mix and your occupancy pattern. We will give you a written quote, usually the same day.
Our office building security covers every level of the tower, from the garage to the roof. Most Los Angeles property managers start with lobby and after hours coverage, then add garage and floor patrols.
Officers manage the main lobby, verify tenants and visitors, issue badges and control access to lift banks and restricted floors.
Registering visitors, notifying hosts and escorting guests to floors where your policy requires it.
Verifying and logging every tenant, contractor and cleaning crew entering outside business hours, which is now a daily occurrence rather than an exception.
Level by level patrols of parking structures and stairwells, with escorts to vehicles for tenants working late.
Supervising deliveries, contractors and freight lift bookings so nobody reaches tenant floors through the service entrance.
Rounds of tenant floors, stairwells, mechanical rooms, roof access and any vacant or part occupied space.
Staffing the command center, monitoring CCTV and life safety panels, and supporting your Fire Safety Director during drills and real events.
Every tower runs differently, especially now. Tell us your occupancy pattern and we will staff around it rather than around a standard schedule.
An office tower officer manages a building where thousands of people may belong but only a fraction are present on any given day. Verification matters more than familiarity, because the officer cannot know every face any more.
On a typical shift, one of our Los Angeles office building security officers will:
What an office tower officer should never do is assume somebody belongs because they look like they do. In a hybrid building the officer may not have seen a legitimate tenant for three weeks, which is exactly why consistent verification matters more now than it used to.
Occupancy patterns have changed and security plans mostly have not. This is where the difference actually shows up.
Comparison point | Fully Occupied, Predictable | Hybrid or Partially Vacant |
Daily pattern | Steady weekday occupancy | Peaks midweek, very quiet Mondays and Fridays |
Officer knowledge | Officers recognise most regulars | Many legitimate tenants are rarely seen |
After hours access | Occasional and notable | Routine and constant |
Main risk | Visitors, deliveries, garage incidents | Unverified access, unoccupied floors, tailgating |
Vacant space | Little or none | Whole floors, sometimes for months |
What coverage needs | Consistent lobby and garage presence | Stricter verification plus documented vacant floor checks |
A fully occupied tower needs steady lobby coverage, garage patrols and disciplined visitor management, with officers who learn the regulars.
A hybrid or partially vacant tower needs tighter verification at every entry, proper logging of after hours access, and documented checks of empty floors, because an unoccupied floor can be used for weeks without anyone noticing.
If your building is residential or mixed use, our high rise building security and concierge pages are the better fit. If your fire alarm or sprinkler system goes out of service, the building needs a fire watch, which is a separate legal requirement.
Internal link: “See our high rise building security, concierge security guards and fire watch services pages.”
Multi tenant towers in the Financial District and Bunker Hill with large garages.
Class A buildings where tenants expect polished front of house and strict access control.
Office buildings along Wilshire from Koreatown to Westwood.
Single occupier towers protecting staff, executives and the brand.
Converted and purpose built creative space in Culver City, Hollywood and Playa Vista.
High rise medical buildings with patient traffic and sensitive floors.
Tenants with confidentiality requirements and visitor expectations.
Buildings repositioning or leasing up, with empty space to protect.
Occupied towers with contractors on some floors and tenants on others.
Office floors within buildings that also contain retail or residential.
Lower rise offices in the Valley, Pasadena and the South Bay.
We provide office and high rise building security across Los Angeles County, including:
Office towers need officers who can be relieved quickly and who know the building well enough to notice what has changed. If you are comparing security companies in Los Angeles, ask how they keep the same officers on your building rather than rotating new faces through your lobby every few weeks.
We staff from the surrounding area wherever possible, across Downtown, the Wilshire Corridor, Century City and the Valley, so relief is reliable and officers know the area around your building.
Do not see your neighborhood? We cover all of Los Angeles County. Call +1 714-760-5385 and ask.
Coverage planned around hybrid patterns, empty midweek floors and routine after hours access rather than a nine to five model.
Officers trained to check properly while keeping tenants moving, which matters when half your population is unfamiliar.
Garage, dock, floors and roof, not just the lobby, because that is where incidents start.
Consistent daily logs and incident reports you can forward without rewriting.
Every officer holds a current BSIS guard card, verified before assignment. We operate under PPO # 121614 with general liability and workers compensation coverage.
Field supervisors run unannounced checks, including overnight and on upper floors.
We do not publish a single hourly figure. A single lobby officer and a full tower team are very different assignments. Here is what moves the rate.
Lobby only costs far less than lobby, garage, dock and command center together. Multi post towers price better per hour.
Business hours only costs less than round the clock, which needs three shifts plus relief.
Hybrid buildings often need the same coverage for fewer people present, which is worth planning rather than absorbing.
Documented checks of empty space add patrol time.
More floors, lifts and garage levels mean longer rounds.
Nights, weekends and holidays carry a premium because officers are paid more to work them.
What we do commit to: one flat hourly rate quoted in writing before you sign, no administrative add ons, reporting included, and no rate change mid contract without your agreement. If a tower quote looks unusually low, ask who is covering the garage at 11pm and how often vacant floors are actually checked.
Call +1 714-760-5385 or request a quote online. We walk the tower from garage to roof, review your occupancy pattern and vacancy, and recommend posts.
You receive post orders for each position, after hours access procedures, a shift schedule and a flat hourly rate.
We brief officers on your building and emergency plan, and coverage begins, typically within 24 hours.
No long term contract is required. Whether you need office building security in Los Angeles during a renovation or as permanent coverage, both are fine.
Lobby and tenant access control, visitor management, after hours access logging, garage and stairwell patrols, loading dock and freight lift supervision, floor and vacant space checks, command center monitoring and emergency support.
Occupancy is now unpredictable, so officers cannot rely on recognising faces, after hours access has become routine, and floors sit empty midweek. That means stricter verification at entry and documented checks of unoccupied space.
In the City of Los Angeles, non residential high rises must have an LAFD approved Fire Safety Director or assistant on site during normal business hours under the city’s high rise emergency planning rules. Confirm the current requirement for your building with LAFD.
Yes. Vacant and part occupied floors are included in patrol routes with documented checks, because empty space is where unauthorised use goes unnoticed longest.
Yes. Garage patrols are one of the most important parts of office tower security, since vehicle break ins and personal safety incidents concentrate there.
It depends on the number of posts, hours, occupancy pattern, vacant floor checks, tower size and coverage window. We quote one flat hourly rate in writing.
Yes. Every officer holds a current BSIS guard card, verified before assignment. We operate under PPO # 121614.
The building will usually need a fire watch until the system is restored and tested. That is a separate legal requirement and we provide it with compliant logs.
Tell us about the building, the tenant mix and your occupancy pattern. We will walk it from garage to roof, recommend the right posts and quote a flat hourly rate in writing. Free assessment, no obligation.