As Nielsen expands its presence in India, its Bengaluru and Mumbai offices reflect a new approach to workplace design that prioritises collaboration, flexibility, and employee experience, designed by Concept Consilio.
As Nielsen expands its footprint in India, its workplaces are evolving into dynamic hubs that foster collaboration, connection, and innovation. This growth reflects a broader shift toward experiencedriven environments—spaces informed by behavioural insights, contextual understanding, and thoughtful planning. Within this changing workplace landscape, the Bengaluru and Mumbai offices respond to the distinct rhythms and functional needs of their teams.
Designed by Concept Consilio, the planning framework translates Nielsen’s business priorities and global workplace vision into spaces tailored for the Indian context. Both offices are the result of a collaborative process between Nielsen and Concept Consilio, shaping spatial strategies, user experience, and operational efficiency.
This Mumbai workplace introduces a new chapter in Nielsen’s India footprint, set within a newly constructed building that provides a clean foundation for expressing the organisation’s brand and work culture. The design uses colour, spatial clarity, and functional organisation to build a workplace identity that aligns with global intent while responding to the needs of a metropolitan workforce. As a new site, the space presents an opportunity to interpret hybrid work patterns, team behaviours, and business requirements through a clear, future-facing spatial framework.
Spread across its 1,50,000 sq. ft. footprint, the planning supports a fast-paced, tech-enabled culture. On the 38th floor, the core is positioned centrally to maximise efficiency of movement and access to natural light across the floor plate. The layout brings together collaboration zones, focused work settings, and shared amenities, enabling teams to shift between modes with ease. With nearly 40 per cent of the workplace dedicated to collaborative use, lounge areas, huddle points, client zones, and multipurpose breakouts act as social anchors, giving employees informal settings for exchange and problem-solving. These elements work together to create a fluid working environment rather than a collection of isolated rooms.
A broad spectrum of settings supports neurodiversity and varied workstyles. Open workstations provide structure for team-based tasks, while enclosed meeting rooms, focus pods, and wellness corners introduce quieter spaces for concentrated work or recalibration. A calm motherhood zone and recreation areas further expand this range, offering restorative settings that support comfort without disrupting the overall workplace rhythm. This mix strengthens user choice and allows people to move between collaboration, immersion, and rest based on their day’s demands.
Accessibility is embedded through strategic spatial planning and inclusive detailing. Ramps enable smoother movement across key transitions, while braille integration strengthens legibility and ease of navigation for diverse users. Underutilised areas are reimagined with intent, such as a previously dead lobby zone that is transformed into a games and breakout space, ensuring that even secondary spaces contribute to everyday engagement and workplace energy.
Hybrid work is supported through a technological backbone that enables seamless connectivity and day-to-day adaptability. Integrated tools, automated systems, ergonomic furniture, controlled acoustics, and access to natural light work together to reinforce comfort and help employees settle into their preferred ways of working. These decisions quietly support wellbeing without creating a separate layer of “wellness features.”
Materiality and palette play a strategic role in shaping orientation, rhythm, and clarity. Each floor is anchored by a distinct colour identity, creating diverse experiences while maintaining a unified brand language across the workplace. Breakout zones are similarly assorted—each offering a different spatial character that gives employees multiple ways to engage with the environment across the day. Energy-efficient lighting, water-optimised fixtures, and highperformance HVAC systems reduce operational impact and support environmental responsibility. Low-VOC materials and durable finishes enhance indoor air quality and extend the life cycle of interiors, aligning with global benchmarks.
Experiential qualities emerge through considered spatial gestures, calibrated colour shifts, and orchestrated light. The design narrative of the Mumbai office builds its identity through a more media and technology-centric graphic language. Artworks and installations reference digital culture, media, and communication, creating a contemporary layer that feels aligned with the city’s pace. Along circulation paths, framed digital-inspired interventions create pause points that encourage moments of focus and reset, adding depth to the everyday journey through the space. These details help define transitions between work modes and mirror the pace and culture of the teams who use the space. The overall framework supports inclusivity, agility, and trust, shaping a workplace that encourages people to gather, engage, and contribute.
Even with a fully hybrid policy that does not require employees to be on-site, the Mumbai office remains consistently occupied, an indication that the environment successfully fosters connection, comfort, and belonging. The appeal comes from the cumulative effect of design decisions that make the workplace intuitive, welcoming, and attuned to everyday routines.
Together, the Bangalore and Mumbai offices contribute to a shared spatial identity that reinforces Nielsen’s global design intent while shaping region-specific experience. Circularity, behavioural planning, human comfort, and inclusion become the underlying constants, while each location contributes its own spatial rhythm and workplace expression. The combined narrative defines a unified, future-facing design language for Nielsen’s India presence.
