Awards and Recognition: Milestones in WorkEZ's Journey

For businesses evaluating a managed office partner for 50, 200, or 500 seats, industry awards function as a useful shortlisting filter rather than a marketing claim. When multiple juries reach similar verdicts about an operator across different years, the pattern tells you something credible about how the market sees that operator.

The table below summarises the six WorkEZ awards to date, across FY 2023-24 and 2026. Details of each recognition, including what the jury saw and what it signals for a business considering WorkEZ as a managed office partner, follow after the table.

The Most Recent Recognition, 2026

Flex Space Project of the Year, New Launch, at the 7th Realty+ Flex Spaces Excellence Awards

About the award. The Realty+ Flex Spaces Conclave and Excellence Awards, presented by FlipSpaces and published by Realty+ Magazine, is one of the benchmark industry events for the flexible workspace category in India. The 7th edition was held in 2026 and judged submissions across more than 20 categories.

What WorkEZ won it for. WorkEZ Helix in Velachery, Chennai, received the award in 2026. Helix is one of the newest flagship centres in our portfolio. The jury was not evaluating the WorkEZ brand in the abstract. The jury was evaluating what we built and delivered at one specific building.

Why it matters to you. Brand-level awards describe how the market sees an operator at the company level. Centre-level awards describe what the operator delivers at the unit level. And this is a centre-level recognition of WorkEZ Helix.

The Five Recognitions in FY 2023-24

The 2026 Helix award joined five earlier recognitions, all received in FY 2023-24. Each is described below, with the context of the organising body, the composition of the jury, and what the recognition signals for a business considering WorkEZ as a managed office partner.

1. BW Flexi Spaces Conclave and Awards 2023: Best Flex Space Community

At the BW Flexi Spaces Conclave and Awards 2023, the jury panel selected WorkEZ as the winner for the category 'Best Flex Space Community'.

About the award. BW Businessworld's Flexi Spaces Conclave brings together leading flexible workspace operators in India, alongside real estate investors, occupier heads, and industry analysts. The Best Flex Space Community category recognises operators that have built an active, engaged user base across their centres, rather than operators that have simply filled seats.

Why the jury picked WorkEZ. Community is one of the most frequently claimed and least frequently delivered features in the flex office industry. Many operators say they have a community. Few invest seriously in making it real across multiple centres. We build ecosystems in which enterprise teams, scale-ups, and their partners benefit from being co-located.

Why it matters to you. If your team will spend 40 hours or more a week inside a managed office, the quality of the community around them has a direct bearing on their day-to-day experience and, over time, on their retention.

2. FlexiCon India Awards: Gold for Best Managed Office Brand

WorkEZ was awarded the Gold Award for 'Best Managed Office Brand' at the FlexiCon India Awards organised by iNFHRA (The Infrastructure, Facility, Human Resource and Realty Association).

About the award. iNFHRA is the leading Indian industry body covering integrated facility management, human resources, and commercial real estate. FlexiCon India is its flagship conference, and the Gold Award for Best Managed Office Brand is the highest honour in the managed workspace category at this event.

Why the jury picked WorkEZ. The iNFHRA jury is composed of senior facility managers, HR directors, and real estate heads from some of the largest corporates operating in India. These are the same people who specify office space requirements, evaluate providers, and sign off on lease decisions inside their own companies. They chose WorkEZ over every other managed office brand in the country for this Gold recognition.

Why it matters to you. When the people who specify the category rank one operator at the top, that is among the most credible endorsements in this industry. If your own facility or HR head is running an RFP, this kind of peer validation from within the category tends to be weighted heavily in the internal conversation.

3. Two Wins at the 5th Realty+ Flex Spaces Excellence Awards 2024

We won not one, but two awards at the 5th Realty+ Flex Spaces Excellence Awards 2024 organised by Realty+ magazine. WorkEZ won the awards in the 'Enterprise Workspaces Brand of the Year' and 'Serviced Offices Amenities of the Year' categories.

About the awards. Realty+ is one of the most widely read real estate publications in India. The 5th edition of its Flex Spaces Excellence Awards judged operators across more than 20 categories, with a jury drawn from real estate consulting firms, occupier strategy advisors, and industry media.

Why the jury picked WorkEZ twice. The two categories measure different things. Enterprise Workspaces Brand of the Year is a brand-level judgement of how the market perceives WorkEZ within the enterprise segment. Serviced Offices Amenities of the Year is an operational judgement of whether our stated amenity standards actually translate into the day-to-day experience at our centres.

Why it matters to you. For any business weighing whether the claims in a sales deck will match the experience on move-in day, this pairing of recognitions is independent confirmation that the alignment holds.

4. Economic Times Real Estate Awards: Emerging Shared Space Brand (National)

At the Economic Times Real Estate Awards, WorkEZ won the 'Emerging Shared Space Brand (National)' award, a recognition reserved for shared space brands that have been operational for less than five years.

About the award. The Economic Times Real Estate Awards are among the most prestigious honours in Indian real estate. The jury panel typically includes leadership from CBRE, JLL, Cushman and Wakefield, and senior industry figures.

The Emerging Shared Space Brand category is specifically reserved for operators with under five years of operation, and is judged on execution quality, growth trajectory, and the potential to shape the category.

Why the jury picked WorkEZ. WorkEZ was founded in the second half of 2019, which placed our first centres in the market just before the COVID-19 pandemic closed offices worldwide. Many operators of our vintage either retrenched sharply or ceased operations during the pandemic years. WorkEZ instead continued to grow, reaching 12 centres, more than 1.5 million square feet, occupancy above 90 per cent, and full-year profitability within five years. The ET jury recognised this as a category-defining trajectory.

Why it matters to you. When you sign a managed office agreement, you are betting that the operator will still be running, and still running well, three to five years later. An emerging-brand award from a jury of the ET's calibre is independent confirmation that WorkEZ is the kind of operator that will be.

What the Pattern of Six Awards Tells You

When six awards accumulate across multiple juries and multiple years, the pattern itself carries information. For a procurement, HR, or facility head shortlisting managed office providers in Chennai, Bengaluru, or Coimbatore, four specific signals stand out.

1. Operational consistency across multiple centres.

An operator cannot win an amenity-quality award at one ceremony, and a centre-of-the-year award at another, if its service standard varies significantly from building to building. Consistency at scale is one of the hardest things to get right in this business. The pattern of WorkEZ wins across categories and years suggests we have.

2. Credibility with the people who specify office space.

The juries for these awards, whether at BW, iNFHRA, Realty+, or the Economic Times, are largely composed of the same professionals who decide where their own companies lease office space. They see every operator in the market, and they have picked WorkEZ.

3. Community and client experience that goes beyond simply providing seats.

This is the signal from the BW Best Flex Space Community recognition. These awards are not just a reflection of our efforts but also a celebration of the vibrant and dynamic community that we have worked to create.

4. Scale without quality drift.

Winning Emerging Shared Space Brand and Enterprise Workspaces Brand of the Year within the same period shows that our growth has not come at the cost of our operating standards. The 2026 Helix recognition confirms this continues to hold at our newest centres.

"Who" WorkEZ Is Today

WorkEZ operates one of the largest enterprise-focused managed office portfolios in India. Our current footprint spans 12 operational centres across Chennai, Bengaluru, or Coimbatore, with more than 1.5 million square feet of managed workspace and over 28,000 seats. Occupancy across the portfolio remains above 90 per cent, top-line revenue has grown at a compound annual rate exceeding 150 per cent, and the business has been full-year profitable since FY 2023.

Our client roster includes PwC, Renault, ABP Network, TVS, Veolia, Psiog, AON, and many others. The mix spans global enterprises, Global Capability Centres, IT and SaaS firms, and scaling startups. Team sizes range from 20-seat growth-stage teams to 500-seat enterprise deployments.

The awards described on this page are, in practice, a lagging indicator. They reflect operational decisions made correctly, thousands of times over, across our 12 centres and over the past several years. The 2026 Realty+ recognition at Helix is confirmation that this standard is holding even at our newest buildings.

Explore the Award-Winning Portfolio

The six awards described on this page represent work spread across the WorkEZ portfolio. Whichever submarket you are evaluating for your next office, there is a WorkEZ centre built to the same standard that earned these recognitions.

In the Chennai central business district, WorkEZ Hansa and WorkEZ Clubhouse are both located on Anna Salai. In the southern enterprise belt, WorkEZ Willow Square and WorkEZ Chambers are in Guindy, while WorkEZ Urban Square and WorkEZ The Ark are on OMR, along with WorkEZ SM Towers in Perungudi. WorkEZ Helix, the 2026 award-winner, and One National Park are in Velachery. WorkEZ Park Centre is in Alwarpet, and WorkEZ The Address is in Pallavaram, close to the airport.

Outside Chennai, WorkEZ Techshire serves Bengaluru, WorkEZ Vivera serves Coimbatore, and WorkEZ IT Twin Towers.

The full list of centres, along with photographs, is available on our Locations page. The fastest way to understand what these awards represent in practice is to visit one of our centres yourself.