'Most landlords thought I was a broker': Urban Company SVP on finding office space in Bengaluru

Amit Das, SVP of design at Urban Company, said in his blog that they had started looking at office spaces in 2021. (Image credit: Amit Das, Urban Company)

A senior vice president of Urban Company recently opened up about the struggle they went through to find the perfect office space for their headquarters in Bengaluru and said that he was so involved in scouting properties that most landlords assumed he was a broker.

Amit Das, SVP of design, said in his blog that they had started looking at office spaces in 2021, and "it took us 1.5 years to find one that we loved".

"Over these 18 months, I spent weeks scouting through properties with our admin team — to an extent that most landlords thought I was a broker. It wasn't my job, so to speak, but it's our head office and I wanted it to almost take us back to our early days at UC — small, collaborative and full of energy," he wrote, adding that it has been about 15 months since the team moved in.

Das also shared a few fun features about the office in Koramangala including more working space than meeting space, and an area for employees to play during breaks or after-work hours.

"I'm not fond of meetings," he said. "So instead of creating a lot of meeting rooms, we made for the minimum number of meeting rooms required and converted two large spaces for brainstorming and multi-week sprints instead."

Speaking about the "play area", the Urban Company executive added, "We created a lot of prompt cards for folks. To doodle some ideas, leave appreciation notes for colleagues, Eisenhower matrix and more. We plan to create some more with restaurants, dishes, and places to visit recommendations for outstation colleagues. That's not it! We got a bunch of board games, Nintendo and Playstation that folks play during breaks, or during after work hours with game nights."