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Ownership Offices
A pioneering offering with incredible benefits Ownership offices have been a trend that was initiated with Brigade’s flagship project - Brigade Towers back in 1986. Today, with a portfolio of over 12 million Sq.ft. in office spaces at various stages of development, Brigade offers lucrative investment options for business owners and discern...
One Business Destination, Twice the Opportunity
Up to 2 million+ Sq.ft. available for lease Brigade Twin Towers located in Yeswanthpur, is Brigade’s latest commercial landmark in the making. With smart technology being the overarching component of this ecosystem, it will feature two iconic office towers together offering 2 million Sq.ft. of development potential. A well planned cafeteria...
Brigade Padmini
Location: Varthur Road, Whitefield Up to 1 million Sq.ft. available for lease Breaking new ground This development located off Kundanahalli Gate, Brookefield, Bengaluru, is positioned to be a premium commercial development. Under development
Workspaces Designed for the Future
The Brigade team welcomed Manhattan Associates, into the butterfly building at Brigade Tech Gardens. It was an action packed day filled with joy and happiness with musical performances and lunch. Brigade Tech Gardens at Brookefields, located in the middle of Bengaluru’s IT corridor, will soon become Brigade’s Landmark IT SEZ project....
Outsmart the future
Brigade International Financial Centre would offer an unparalleled office ecosystem for stalwarts in the Global Financial & IT services sector. The 14-storeyed office tower is currently operational and among one of the most sought-after office spaces within GIFT City. With world-class infrastructure which is at par with any other international...
Give your business the Global Edge
In the corporate world, the way and where you do business from, is all that matters. World Trade Center Kochi co-developed with Kochi Infopark is one of the most sought-after business destinations. World Trade Center Kochi is located in the heart of the booming IT hub of Kakkanad with state-of-the-art infrastructure, easy accessibility and Leed Gol...
The Correlation Between Open Spaces & Employee Satisfaction
Work-life balance just ain’t a buzzword anymore. It is practically a KPI to ensure that your business succeeds. So maybe a 2 week paid vacation can keep your employees satisfied and fulfilled. Wrong. Apart from the culture and work-life balance bit that begins with the values that are nurtured in the workplace, the millennial workforce feel...
Resimercial Design: Everything You Need to Know
Remember Dorothy from the 1939 classic Wizard of Oz famously declaring “there’s no place like home,” at the end of the film? Fast forward to 2019 where millennials may be tempted to add “except for the office,” to Dorothy’s statement. Do you ever feel like you spend too much time at your workplace that you may a...
How Does Your Workspace Aid in Employer Branding?
Every business comes with its distinct reputation. This can comprise of opinions about the company, products or services, management and leadership, team members, history and much more. And your business reputation can go above and beyond just this. It can inspire unique perceptions, be it intellectual, instinctive or even emotional in those who w...
Cycling to Work: New Ideas in Workplace Strategy
the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” When you view this from a business perspective, it drives the fact that both companies and employees need to transform their manner of thinking & evolve through new ideas that will facilitate growth and survival. To put it bluntly, they must start innovating. Why ...
Six Characteristics of an Innovative Workplace
Offices in the past were simply places where employees had to be present between nine to five. Plus, these workspaces generally had dull designs, with boring colours, fluorescent lights, and tiny cubicles all around. In one word – uninviting. With no sense of community present, employees pretty much showed up at work, went about their i...
Acoustics at The Office: The Sound of Success!
The corporate world and open offices seem to have a love-hate relationship. And a great part of it happens to centre around office acoustics. You will find acoustics everywhere in offices – the air conditioning, obnoxious ringtones, traffic, nearby construction —especially—from other people’s voices. And it can be disrupt...
Sitting all day at the office? Here are some quick and easy exercises to prevent backache.
Sitting in front of your laptop or system, straining on that screen all day long to meet your deadline. Does that sound like you? If yes, then you might be suffering from or might be prone to backache. The current lifestyle has reduced our movements to the minimum. Adding to that is the shift in the work culture. Desk jobs have taken over the wo...
Gujarat: The Land of Opportunities and Investment
The real estate sector in India is soaring. According to the India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF), the real estate market is expected to reach USD 1 trillion by 2030 and will contribute 13% of the country’s GDP by 2025. The commercial, residential and hospitality sectors in real estate are growing faster and providing the much needed infrastr...
How to Achieve Work-Life Balance?
Work-life balance is like the unicorn of the corporate world. While everyone desires to achieve it, it doesn’t really exist. With the incoming technological advancements in mobile phones, people are taking their work home with them. They are never shutting down and are available 24*7 for emails and messages. This has severely impacted thei...
How to Make the Most of Your Commute to Work?
Do you commute to work? You’re not alone. In fact, we’ve all been there. You may have a daily commute of 45 minutes each way. At least that’s what Google Map shows you at the start of your journey. But how does it turn into an hour, or even an hour and 15 minutes? Possibly an accident, jam packed roads, may be even a delay i...
Why does the city of Bengaluru need more green buildings?
With a population of 13.9 million, Bengaluru is accommodating the major chunk of the Indian youth. The city is in constant demand for more residential and commercial buildings to accommodate the increasing population influx. With the already increasing space crunch, and not to mention, the climate change, constructing conventional buildings is n...
The Brigade International Financial Centre: Changing India’s Ecosystem
What is the most important factor in driving the economic growth of the country? Infrastructure development? Foreign investment? Ease of doing business? Human and natural resources? Technological advancement? All of these answers are correct. But drawing in foreign investments and easing out the process of doing business in India is among the...
How does networking help in the organization’s growth?
Ever wondered why some companies flourish so fast while the others take time to reach the milestones? When one thinks about the growth of any organization, they mostly attribute it to revenue, clientele, team strength, and quality, etc. But how can a sustainable mechanism be created which ensures that all these factors are always improving? Beca...
Beginner’s guidelines for investing in the commercial real estate sector
Everyone in the nation right now knows about investments and their values. Especially the youth. Investments are more profitable than keeping the money in banks. We all know about mutual funds, stocks, and all of those traditional assets. Investing in the real estate sector has been booming. Especially in the commercial real estate (CRE) sector....
Bengaluru Traffic - The most important factor governing the office rental decision in the city
Ever seen police mannequins to regulate the traffic? Dressed in traffic police uniform, 30 mannequins were deployed in Bengaluru in November 2019 to tackle traffic congestions. Such is the condition of Bengaluru traffic. But how did the situation escalate to this point? The answer is simple: Increased population. Entitled as the Silicon Va...
6 apps or websites to look out for while leasing/buying an office
If one is currently looking out for a place in one of the metro cities, then they might know how painstakingly difficult that is. Finding a place in urban cities is not a piece of cake. This gets more difficult when businesses are out and about looking for a suitable office space. Investing substantially huge amounts is a big deal and it require...
Sleeping Pods in Office Space: A Luxury or Necessity?
Ever felt drowsy after having lunch in the office? Or felt fatigued working continuously in front of the screen? Everyone during his work time must have dozed off some or the other time. Feeling sleepy or tired during office hours is looked down upon. Especially in the corporate world one has to stay active 9-5 for maximum output. The current...
Impact of E-commerce on Commercial Real Estate
The whole world is packed into a single screen. From news to books to emails, everything is now at the fingertips. The traditional ways are dying out. One such front is shopping. The number of footsteps approaching a local store has decreased significantly. Online shopping has made the world grow exponentially faster. It has entirely changed the...
All set to get back to work? Here’s what to expect
The countdown has begun. Just a few more days. All set and all preparations done. Can’t hold the excitement anymore. This might be what’s going on in the minds of most people right now. With the end of the lockdown just around the corner, people are all pumped to step out and join their offices again. This social distancing has been ...
How to Manage Appraisals During Lockdown
Appraisals or performance review is an integral part of organizations. That’s what drives employees to give better than their best performance. Measuring individual performance is a way of assessing the company’s growth. But the coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown has not only led to the economic crisis but is also making the whole ...
Indian Smart cities in 2020 and their investments
2020 smart cities are all about smart urban spaces, smart transportation, and smart infrastructure. According to the UN, by 2030, there will be 43 new metropolitan cities globally. In the recent Indian Union Budget for the fiscal year 2020-2021, five new smart cities have been declared under the smart cities’ mission. The main features of ...
Technologies assisting teams working from home: Insights
The recent COVID-19 outbreak and its viral spread is keeping people behind their doors. With the compulsion of staying back at home, the organizations had no other option but to take their work home. This is a sensible decision taken at such times when the world economy is crumbling at the hand of this fatal virus. People need to continue to work t...
Why cutting down meeting time is crucial for productivity?
If asked, which is the biggest time-consuming culprit in your office? Then most of the employees will unanimously answer it’s ‘meetings’. Yes. The definition and the sole objectives and outcomes of the office or team meetings have changed. The purpose of the meeting was to get the team together to discuss an important agenda an...
2023 Outlook: What will the office of the future look like?
A landline phone, a bulky desktop, a pen stand, and multiple file cabinets in the office. That’s what an office looked like back in the 90s. Cut to the present - mobile phones, a laptop or a sleek desktop, lack of stationery, system backup, decorative desks. That’s how the office environment has evolved since then. The workplace has ...
How Emotional Intelligence can be vital for leaders during COVID-19
Let’s analyse a situation here. Suppose an employee is going through anxiety during this WFH period. The employee approaches his/her leader, to share what they are going through, and asks for some time off. Now here are 3 situations showing how 3 different managers deal with it. Manager 1 empathizes with the employee, talks with him/...
How to Manage Social Distancing in Offices?
We are all hearing terms like ‘the new norm’, a new way of life, and so on. And all these are in fact true. Things are changing to new standards. A new temporary permanent is settling in, for how long, we don’t know. This is visible in every aspect of life - whether we stay back at home, avoiding social contact as much as possible...
Agile Workplace: Why is it important?
We have all been hearing about agile workplaces, quite a lot recently. The agile workplace is in trend lately among the offices and has become a milestone for an advanced and ideal space to work right now. But why is the agile workplace becoming a buzz? Let’s understand. What is an Agile Workplace? According to a Harvard Business Revi...
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Celebrating the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi - the Father of our Nation is a great way to recall the principles of this noble man