A senior executive at Urban Company recently shared the struggles the firm went through for finding office space for its headquarters in Bengaluru. Talking about his experience, Amit Das, Senior Vice President, Design, revealed that he faced several hurdles in scouting the space for the company’s headquarters in the city.
In his blog post, Das said that he was so involved in the whole process that most landlords started assuming that he is a broker, reported Moneycontrol. He added that the firm started looking for office spaces in 2021 and ‘it took us 1.5 years to find one that we loved’.
“Over these 18 months, I spent weeks scouting through properties with our admin team — to an extent that most landlords thought I was a broker. It wasn't my job, so to speak, but it's our head office and I wanted it to almost take us back to our early days at UC — small, collaborative and full of energy,” he wrote in his post.
The executive shared that the team moved in to the place about 15 months ago. Sharing more details about the office located in Koramangala, he noted that the space includes features such as more working space than meeting space, area for employees to engage in games during breaks or after-work hours.
“I'm not fond of meetings. So instead of creating a lot of meeting rooms, we made for the minimum number of meeting rooms required and converted two large spaces for brainstorming and multi-week sprints instead,” he shared.
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In terms of the ‘play area’ installed in the office, Das noted that there are various options available for the employees. These include prompt cards, board games, Playstation, Nintendo, among others. "We plan to create some more with restaurants, dishes, and places to visit recommendations for outstation colleagues," he stated.