For those who had ample environment to work from home, cafes, workspaces and co-working offices are providing alternative spaces
‘Will a kind friend let me use a silent corner in their house to do the work?’ A colleague’s desperate plea on social media was because he found it difficult to cope with daily household chores. While some came to his rescue and offered his farmhouse, almost everyone could sympathize.
Ultimately, over the past year, as the office closed to prevent the spread of COVID-19, people from around the world explored the challenges of working from home together. As the exhaustion of the epidemic remains closed in many offices, people have been looking for options, from cafes to co-working spaces, and embracing the frills that accompany them: reliable WiFi, cappuccino, and a social life.
Amin Pirani, marketing manager of the Hyderabad-based hydroponic farm, says a café near his home became his workplace. Amin recalls, “In fact, I found myself in the cafe at 9.30 am and logged in to work to finish the call, email and meeting. It has become a habit to work in an office, working from home was not as exciting after six months. ”
Dr. Prerna Ravi, who starts working at a cafe in Bengaluru at 9 am daily, says that the atmosphere plays a major role. “I am preparing for an oncology specialization test. My apartment complex is making noise with children. “She continues,” I come to the cafe, order my breakfast and several cups of green tea. I’m in the café until noon and when it starts filling, I leave. After that I do a group study I go to a business center with a friend for a session. “
Meanwhile there are ‘workstation’ offers from hotels. Sheraton Gachibowli, and other business hotels, have day packages. Workplaces come with lunch and evening tea packages, fresh fruit juices and drinks for short breaks. The goal here for the hospitality space is to take advantage of a new era of remote work to reduce their subsequent revenue.
Looking for a space to hold a meeting without the sound of a pressure cooker in the background, people who want to set up more structured are moving to co-working spaces. Santosh Martin, head of co-working space provider, WeWork India, says, “We are seeing increasing demand for flexible workspaces, especially by large companies that are rethinking their fixed asset investments based on current market conditions . ” They believe that this demand is a result of 2020 forcing businesses to reevaluate their commercial real estate strategy to make it more flexible and agile.
Santosh says, “According to a report by UK-based Jones Lang Lasley Incorporated (JLL), a global commercial real estate services company driven by increased demand from large enterprises, the flexible workspace market crosses 50 million sq ft by 2023 Will do. ”He says he expects to contribute about 10% of the total leasing activity in 2021 and 2022,” Last year, we saw a 10% increase in our enterprise member base. “
Cultural centers have also led to an increase of the ‘creative crowd’ from writers to web designers. According to Anvesh Kuruvilla of Aromale, a cafe that comes with a cultural space in Hyderabad’s Jubilee Hills, the footfall increase is up to 40%. He says, “This is roughly the number of people accessing lawns and creativity centers commercially and for project discussions.”
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In Mumbai where living spaces are cramped, couples are moving to work and co-working places. Some couples say it is helping improve relationships that went sour from a year of sharing limited space through the day. Rekha M (changed name) whose husband manages a co-working space in Mumbai’s Dadar, says the space was bombarded with requests from friends to reopen.
“We also considered operating it partially during lockdown, but then we faced trouble. Now that things are back to normal, our co-working space is always occupied by friends and their friends who find it exhausting to work from home. Space allows interaction with new people, ”says Rekha.
As heat arrives, there is a power cut along with it. Keeping these factors in mind, a lot of corporate employees are looking to book co-working spaces. “There is only hitch, we need to dress formally again,” says Radhika Kumar, a coffee shop in Hyderabad’s Hitech City, a corner of Roast. No more spending the day in pajamas. On the plus side, you do not need to clean your room before a zoom meeting. And at these workplaces, unlike your office, you can run meetings in shorts with endless cappuccino on the call.
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