IN MY VIEW
Rishi Das
COVID-19 Second Wave: What the Future Holds for Flexible Workspaces
Rishi Das, Co-founder, IndiQube
Rishi Das is an accomplished industry leader and a well-recognised entrepreneur. His interest in diverse sectors has led him on a journey of growth across talent acquisition, HR management & commercial real estate. This exposure has helped him create...
EXPERT OPINION
Aashish Agarwal
Back to the Future: How the Office Will Evolve after the Pandemic
Aashish Agarwal, Managing Director, Workspace
Aashish Agarwal leads the workspace business at ANSR, overseeing leasing, project design and operations to provide unique workspace-as-a-service solutions. Over the last 15 years, he has worked with clients across India and Asia Pacific on business strategy and specializes...
Asif Upadhye
The Future of Recruitment Is Going to be a Social Movement
Asif Upadhye, Director & Dark Knight, Never Grow Up
Asif Upadhye is a Director and Dark Knight at Never Grow Up, a Work Culture Consultancy with turnkey capabilities in areas of Employer Branding, Employee Insights & Well-being. With over a decade of experience in the HR domain &...
Dr. Malini Saba
The Augmented Workplace: Features to Expect in the Post-COVID World
Dr. Malini Saba, Founder & Chairman, Saba Group & Anannke Foundation
Dr Malini Saba is a self-made Businesswomen and the founder & chairman of Saba Group & Anannke Foundation. Dr Malini Saba is an advocate for marginalized & with an aim to help ‘one billion’ people she launched ‘Anannke Foundation’...
Nakul Mathur
Flexible Office Spaces as the Workplace Recovery Solution
Nakul Mathur, Managing Director, Avanta Business Center
Nakul joined Avanta in 2008 when Avanta opened its center in India, by mid-2009 with the world going into a heavy recession like several other businesses Avanta was reeling under a lot of pressure. Then being the regional operations...
Nandini Taneja
How Retail and Coworking Spaces Will Take the Real Estate Sector to Next Level Post-Pandemic?
Nandini Taneja, Vice President, ReachPro Group
Nandini Taneja, a 39-year-old trailblazer, has been able to advance through her career by viewing the real estate industry from a wide lens to identify business drivers, understand complex issues, take actions and drive results. Her 15+ years of...
Neha Agarwal
How have Startup Strategies Changed in Office Work Culture?
Neha Agarwal, Founder, Digi Acai
Neha Agarwal is a Mompreneur, SEO pioneer and Digital Marketing Specialist with over 11 years of experience with brands like Jabong, IGP.com, Heads Up For Tails, and POPxo. In January 2020, she started a Digital Marketing Agency- Digi Acai....
Pradeep Lala
Facilities Management – Integral to Any Work Culture
Pradeep Lala, MD and CEO, Embassy Services Private Ltd
Pradeep Lala is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Embassy Services since 2013. In a short span of time, he has taken Embassy Services to become one of the largest business units within the Embassy Group. He...
Rajesh Subramanian
How Digitalisation Eased the Pandemic for Small Businesses
Rajesh Subramanian, Founder, Ghoshak
Rajesh Kumar Subramanium is an ex-Amazon and ex-SAP product and software developer with a rich experience of 15 years in the industry. He led a team at Amazon that built applications for consumer facing electronic products such as Kindle...
Sheshgiri Kamath
How has Technology Eased Remote Working?
Sheshgiri Kamath, CEO & Co-founder, Kapture CRM
Sheshgiri Kamath co-founded Adjetter in 2011 along with Vikas Garg and Pearl Tewari. This startup transformed into Kapture CRM in 2014. Prior to that, he was involved with via.com in a global role across india and south east asia...
Shivang Shah
Challenges and Evolution of Workplace as a Start-up
Shivang Shah, Co-founder, Django Digital
Shivang Shah is the co-founder of Django Digital, an integrated solutions agency that has been in operation since almost two years. In a day and age where the digital space is scattered with content, Django Digital is creating clutter-breaking...
Vishal Kakkar
Pros and Cons of Technologies Used by Employers for Streamlining Work Processes for Employees
Vishal Kakkar, Business Head and Partner, Envisage
With more than 19 years of experience, Vishal has been instrumental in developing Envisage as a force to reckon with in the field of architecture, interiors, and design and build. He began his career leading project executions and managing...
Yogita Tulsiani
HR Space: How New Tactics are Pioneering the Strong Work Culture amid COVID
Yogita Tulsiani, Director & Co-founder, iXceed Solutions
Yogita Tulsiani is armed with a Master’s in Business Administration from ISB, Hyderabad. The versatile businessperson has more than a decade of experience in Business Development and Consultancy across various industries in the UK, USA, Europe, and APAC. Her...
LEADER’S INSIGHTS
Abhijit Roy
Post Covid Work Culture
Abhijit Roy, CEO, Aapna Infotech
Abhijit Roy is a co-founder and CEO of AAPNA Infotech. He is a passionate technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in providing solutions to enterprise customers and startups. The Covid-19 pandemic has tremendous and swift effects...
Faiz Rehman Abbasi
Preparing Businesses for Hybrid Meetings
Faiz Rehman Abbasi, National Business Head, India & SAARC (Collaboration), Barco
Faiz is Sales Leader for Barco’s collaboration portfolio representing India & SAARC region. Demonstrated history of working in unified communication and SaaS industry. Experience in Sales & Business Development, Channel Strategy & Management, Business Unit Management, P&L Management, Expense Management...
Nitin Mehta
Understanding the Aesthetics of Windows in Workspaces
Nitin Mehta, Executive Director, ALCOI
Nitin Mehta is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of ALCOI, one of India’s leading suppliers of eco-friendly high–performance fenestration solutions. With his futuristic outlook and innovative leadership, Nitin has led the growth of ALCOI into an industry leader in...
Prawal Kalita
Inclusion of LGBTQ+ Community at the Workplace
Prawal Kalita, Practice Leader - Employee Health & Benefits, Marsh India
According to Pride Research survey conducted by ACKO and YouGov in June 2021, only 2 out of every 5 Indian parents said that they would be supportive if their child was part of the LGBTQ+ community. Also, a study...
Vinit Dungarwal
Understanding Workplace Operations Post-Pandemic
Vinit Dungarwal, Director, AMs Project Consultants Pvt. Ltd.
An innovative and performance-oriented leader with more than 15 years of experience, Vinit is the driving force behind the brand’s growth and success and offers deep insights and proficiency in handling large-scale, multi-business operations. He has a great risk-taking...
Yogesh Thore
Making Workspaces a Safe Haven for Employees
Yogesh Thore, Founder & CEO, Friyey
Yogesh genuinely believes in solving real problems and is working towards making coworking spaces free. As an entrepreneur, he followed his passion and started Friyey, a disruptive startup in Coworking that transforms clubs/pubs into co-working spaces during the day....
ARCHITECT’S VIEW
Mitu Mathur
Future of Workspaces in India – How Will the Infrastructure of Workspaces Change Post-Pandemic
Mitu Mathur, Director, GPM Architects and Planners
Mitu Mathur is an accomplished architect and urban designer, with extensive experience in designing urban planning, institutional, commercial and housing projects. As the Director of GPM, she has been steering the firm’s growth since 2006, exemplifying its collaborative and...
Prashant Sawant
Future of Workspace Designs: How Designs Will Promote Safety and Office Work Culture
Prashant Sawant, Vertical Head – Corporate Interiors, Edifice Consultants
Prashant has considerable experience in all architectural aspects of a project, having performed roles both at the studio within the design team, in addition to site and client management. His track record of projects handled includes an SEZ, amongst...
Pritika Singh
Design Trends to Watch Out for in the New Normal at Workspaces
Pritika Singh, Founder, Mohh
Founded in 2020, by Delhi-based entrepreneur, Pritika Singh, Mohh believes in delivering superior quality, modern and fresh designs inspired from trends and phenomena from across the world, which invoke a sense of happiness in you and extend your personality...
Rakhee Bedi
How will the Office Work Culture change in the ‘New Normal’?
Rakhee Bedi, Founding Principal, Rakhee Shobhit Design Associates (RSDA)
Rakhee Bedi is the Founding Principal at Rakhee Shobhit Design Associates which is a multidisciplinary design firm delivering architecture, interior design and strategic services across India based in Gurgaon. In over more than 15 years, she has successfully designed...
Stuti Gawri
Reinventing Workspaces: Merging the office with WFH culture
Stuti Gawri, Interior Designer and Director, The Greyy Room
Stuti Gawri is a third-generation businesswoman in a family of architectural experts, who have been in the industry since the 1980’s. After earning a degree in interior design from Raffles College of Design & Commerce, Australia, she set up...
MANAGING EDITOR'S NOTE
Is the Future Flexible?
Sarath Shyam
“Is this the time you come to work?” “Sorry, I was stuck in traffic.” Many of us must be missing this conversation now. Indeed, the new norms of social distancing have destroyed some common excuses forever. With no more...