Today, there are close to 200 co-working operators running an estimated 400+ facilities across the country. Notably, the five major co-working players in India鈥擱egus, WeWork, CoWrks, Awfis, Smartworks鈥攈ave 0.79 million sq m (8.5 million sq ft) operational space, as per Knight Frank.
In India, Regus鈥檚 network spans 16 cities and 120 locations, offering a combination of private offices and co-working options. It currently has about 0.2 million sq m (2 million sq ft) and 20,000 seats under operation, as per a Knight Frank report.
CoWrks currently operates 2 million sq ft of office space across cities, with 25 centres in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Chennai and Hyderabad.
Awfis currently has 30,000 seats across 63 centres in 10 cities, including Mumbai, Bengaluru, Delhi-NCR, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad and Chandigarh.聽
Smartworks has a total footprint of over 2 million sq ft across 22centres in nine cities across the country. It is present in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune, with multiple facilities in each city. Last December, it launched one of its biggest facilities鈥�3 lakh sqft鈥攊n Bengaluru (the third in the city).
Currently, Workafella has 9,000 fully functional operational seats and 6,000 seats in the fitout stage across four cities: Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Mumbai. It recently launched 鈥楬i-Street鈥�, a statuesque 1.5 lakh sq ft, 12-storiedbuilding, in Chennai.
Brigade鈥檚 BuzzWorks has currently launched 200 seats in Whitefield and North Bengaluru, and has multiple centres under fitouts.
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