Smartworks

𝐖𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐱. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠. When we started Smartworks , the conventional wisdom was that flexible workspaces were for freelancers and startups. We believed the real opportunity was the #enterprise - the 500-person company that needed a large space in a Tier 1 city , fully managed, operational in weeks, with no 10-year lease commitment tying up their balance sheet. And.... not just an office. A campus. Large-format, fully serviced, built for how enterprises actually work - at scale, across cities, over years. Nobody in India was building that. So we did. The thesis was simple: enterprises want great offices. They don't want the operational complexity, the capex, or the risk that comes with them. Remove those barriers, create a an ecosystem with aspirational amenities - at a price point that makes sense and the choice becomes easy. We heard a lot of scepticism in those early years. But, we kept building. Today, 90% of our revenue comes from enterprise clients. GCCs alone have grown from 7% to 15% of our rental revenue in a year. And 37% of our rental revenue now comes from clients with 1,000+ seats - up from 29% just a year ago. Flex is no longer a fringe bet. It is mainstream infrastructure for how enterprises work. And the opportunity ahead is far bigger than anything behind us. Pratik Agarwal Anirudh Tapuriah Sahil Jain Harsh Binani Kalpana Devnani Anshul Popli Siddharth Banerjee Anita Sharma Karan Agarwal Swati kumari Nivi Rastogi Sameerr Saboo Hiren Soni Rawal Hanumant Singh Amit Nagpaul Vishal Sukhija Mahua Kumar Kiran Bagde Eshan Manchanda Rohan Modi Lakshmi Ramesh Animesh Tripathi Akash G. Smartworks Sudev sudhakaran #FlexWorkspace #ManagedCampus #EnterpriseOffice #GCC #Smartworks

For a long time #GCC conversations in India were centred around scale. - How many people could be hired. - How efficiently operations could run. - How much work could move offshore. That conversation is evolving quickly. Today, many GCCs are taking ownership of products, platforms, customer experience, and business-critical decisions that directly shape global organisations. I recently had the opportunity to discuss this shift alongside leaders from Adobe, Diageo, and Availity. One theme stood out clearly through the discussion: as mandates become more strategic, everything around the ecosystem needs to evolve alongside it. ✓ Workspaces can no longer be treated as static infrastructure. ✓ Culture can no longer operate separately from innovation. ✓ Learning can no longer stop after onboarding. The organisations building long-term advantage are the ones creating environments where teams can scale quickly, collaborate seamlessly, experiment confidently, and operate with real ownership. India’s GCC story is no longer only about execution capability. Increasingly, it is becoming a story about global leadership capability. Watch the full discussion here https://lnkd.in/dF86eEgZ #GCC #FutureOfWork #EnterpriseGrowth #Leadership Forbes India Pratik Agarwal Anirudh Tapuriah Sahil Jain Kalpana Devnani Anshul Popli Siddharth Banerjee Anita Sharma Karan Agarwal Swati kumari Nivi Rastogi Sameerr Saboo Hiren Soni Rawal Hanumant Singh Amit Nagpaul Vishal Sukhija Mahua Kumar Kiran Bagde Eshan Manchanda Rohan Modi Lakshmi Ramesh Animesh Tripathi Akash G. Smartworks Neetish Sarda Hritu Kumar

Long build cycles don’t work. Fragmented vendor ecosystems don’t work. Managing real estate as a side function doesn’t work. And yet, this is how most enterprises operated for years. What’s changed is the pace. Businesses are scaling faster. Expanding across cities from day one. And timelines have compressed. Real estate can’t stay slow in a system that’s moving this fast. And so, the questions have also changed. Not “where do we take space?” But “how quickly can we stand up a fully operational office, anywhere?” That shift is pushing companies toward a different model. From managing vendors to working with one accountable partner. From building offices to deploying them. From flexibility to consistency. Managed offices aren’t on the edges anymore. They’re becoming infrastructure. That’s the shift we’ve been building for at Smartworks . https://lnkd.in/gzTPY-22 The Economic Times Sobia Khan Pratik Agarwal Anirudh Tapuriah Sahil Jain Neetish Sarda Kalpana Devnani Anshul Popli Siddharth Banerjee Anita Sharma Karan Agarwal Swati kumari Nivi Rastogi Sameerr Saboo Hiren Soni Rawal Hanumant Singh Amit Nagpaul Vishal Sukhija Mahua Kumar Kiran Bagde Eshan Manchanda Rohan Modi Akash G. Lakshmi Ramesh Animesh Tripathi

Thrilled to share that I’ve been honored with the Superstar Award at Smartworks ! 🎉 As an IT professional, every challenge — from firewall deployments to complex IT projects and every effort to ensure seamless infrastructure uptime has been an opportunity to learn, adapt and grow. This recognition is truly motivating and reinforces why I’m so passionate about what I do.

In my recent conversation with ET NOW , we discussed about some of the larger shifts shaping the future of work in India. Smartworks ’ recent expansion with a Forbes 2000 company across four cities is more than just another mandate. It reflects the trust global enterprises continue to place in the Smartworks platform and in our ability to deliver consistency, scale, and speed across markets. One of the key themes was how #AI is reshaping the role of offices. While technology is changing the way we work, it is also making collaboration, innovation, and high-quality workplace environments even more important. We also touched upon the strong momentum around #GCC expansion in India and the growing preference for flex and managed campuses as companies look for agility and faster go-live timelines. India’s office story is evolving rapidly, and I truly believe this is only the beginning. Neetish Sarda Anirudh Tapuriah Sahil Jain Kalpana Devnani Anshul Popli Siddharth Banerjee Anita Sharma Karan Agarwal Kalpana Devnani Swati kumari Nivi Rastogi Sameerr Saboo Hiren Soni Rawal Hanumant Singh Amit Nagpaul Vishal Sukhija Mahua Kumar Kiran Bagde Eshan Manchanda Rohan Modi Akash G. #Smartworks #FutureOfWork #GCC #AI #ManagedCampuses #FlexSpaces