Mumbai: Reliance Jio’s open office concept is a new buzz in the corporate world. Reliance Jio’s open work station bags 2016 Liveable Office Award instituted by Herman Miller-REACH for Best Office Design.  Reliance Jio’s commercial office situated in Navi Mumbai was conceived and implemented by Mumbai-based design consultant firm DWP Interics, the modern open-office model was rewarded primarily for its stylish collaborative spaces, sleek lounges, and use of attractive color schemes.

In a bid to create a better work environment in its Mumbai headquarters, the telecom company joined hands with a number of designers and concept artists to design the whole work station. The theme of the office space and design of reliance Jio has been a blanket ban on pre-existing cabin culture and developing cultural sense of open work space and collaborative work stations.

One highlight from their eight-storied glass-façade building is an art installation that is supposedly made out of scrapped remains of a petite four-wheeler which once used to be a ubiquitous black-and-yellow taxi (locally known as kaali-peeli), a type of cabs that still adorns the roads of Mumbai and other cities of India.

Other winners in the ‘Commercial Office’ group were Airbnb’s Beijing office, IBM Studio in Shanghai, Marriott’s Shanghai office, and Indeed Tokyo.