While hundreds of swanky offices may have cropped up in the recent past in India, it’s companies like Google that gave rise to the modern office with the perks of a 5 star hotel. Getting a job at Google is no mean feat, but the lucky ones that do, get to call this their workplace.
Coworking is an upcoming concept in India and is catching up pretty quickly. As a bootstrapped startup or freelancer, it’s very hard to find an affordable place to work and grow your business. Especially in a city like Mumbai where commercial real estate prices can be sky high, coworking spaces make a lot of sense. This is where Mumbai Coworking Spaces comes in. It offers an affordable working space to startups, entrepreneurs, freelancers, etc.
In the fast, hurried metropolis of Bangalore, time can be the most precious resource one has. This cafe has literally set the store by it. At the Dialogues cafe in Koramangla, Bangalore, you don’t pay for the food you eat – you just pay for the time you spend there.
On a busy workday, against the cloudy skies, we decided to give it a try and instead of ordering the lunch in, walked up to the cafe.
Parkar Consulting group has created a workplace of, by and for the employees. More specifically, HR and work policies at Parkar are formulated by their own staff based on collective recommendations. In a deviation from the monotone colours of most Technology Consulting workspaces, Parkar’s vibrant office space radiates the work ethos, values and preferences of a young workforce.
When a company that helps you connect with professionals, and get jobs in companies you see yourself working at, turns into a desirable place to work at, itself, it’s deadly combination. And professional networking site Linkedin with its new office is doing just that. After we took you on a tour of the fun Mumbai office of Facebook, here’s another Fortune50 company showing us how it’s done.
The world’s biggest social network Facebook has just stepped into an all new office in Mumbai, and it’s worth more than a ‘like.’
The office is located at the Bandra Kurla Complex, neighbour to rival Google, spanning over a space of 22,000 sq. ft. This new office is all things Facebook, kitsch, India, and very little like the industrial look headquarters of Menlo Park or the understated office in Hyderabad. After all, Facebook Mumbai is where most of the Indian sales team will operate out of. Here’s a glimpse.
Recently Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, inaugurated its new technology “center of excellence” at Outer Ring Road, Bengaluru. We got a chance to look at the office, and we’re happy to share the photos.
International Tech Park Bangalore (ITPB) is one of the many tech parks that dot Bangalore, India’s IT capital. Located in Whitefields, it’s spread over a sprawling 69 acres, and houses over 35,000 employees.
One of the toughest parts of being away at work for 12 hours a day is being away from your pet. Most people shy away from keeping pets, or are forced to give up their pets to shelters because of work commitments. While most companies abroad allow pets, in India it still remains a much desired perk. However, many startups across the metros are taking matters of the fur into their hands, and welcoming pets into their offices. (Or cafes and studios for that matter.) Here’s some of the startups in India that are pet friendly, along with the pets that grace their offices.