Aggressive Occupiers Of Offices in India

Recently, a popular property consultant firm conducted a research on mid-sized corporate real estate occupiers during the period June – July 2015, and gathered the responses of leading corporate firms headquartered in India and overseas. The research report says that, corporate real estate occupiers seem to be very aggressive in occupying office spaces across India.
Basically, the survey pointed to the choice of work space being progressively driven by the three main objectives; they are Talent (availability and cost), Infrastructure (social and physical) and Real Estate options. It has to be noted that the survey respondents included the corporates based across different industries and the representatives of typical Indian office space occupiers.
Below mentioned are a few key findings of the research:
 

The corporate occupiers in India are more likely to adopt the workplace strategies. The survey also revealed that the occupiers are being very efficient and are more inclined to adopt the efficient strategies, with most of the corporates mainly preferring to adopt open space workstation formats.
The leading corporate space occupiers continued to occupy the core locations and central business districts of major cities. The study also explored the preferences of the respondents across various occupation options, and the result indicated that, almost about 75% of the respondents preferred to lease, pre-lease or purchase the space within the prime locations of the cities.
IT/ITeS companies are planning to expand their operations across major cities in the southern part. The respondents of other key sectors like ecommerce firms, health care and others preferred Mumbai and Delhi NCR for their future expansions.
Office space occupiers across the leading industry segments were asked to chart out the direction in which they want to expand their office over the next two years. The results indicated that, most of the IT/ITeS firms (almost about 70%) of the respondents are more likely to expand their operations in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai, while the ecommerce and media firms chose to expand in Mumbai and Delhi NCR in the next two years.
It’s expected that the headcount of corporate offices will increase in the next two years as most of the respondents seemed to be very aggressive on expanding their operations in India. Almost 80% of the respondents from the sectors like IT/ITeS, consulting, research, ecommerce are planning to increase the employee headcount in the next two years.

 
Many respondents were comfortable with the corporate real estate strategies of expanding their operations within the existing markets. The above mentioned key findings clearly indicate that the occupier sentiment is highly positive towards the business environment of India for the next two years.

Sahaana Jai, the author of the above article is working in a real estate concern offering corporate real estate in Bangalore. She is a blogger as well as a web enthusiast. She writes articles, posts based on the needs and future of commercial real estate in Metropolitan cities.

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