HERE inaugurates a new state-of-the art facility in Mumbai

HERE Technologies has announced the inauguration of its new state-of-the-art office in Mumbai at NESCO IT Park. The new facility is spread over a total carpet area of 66,489 square feet, across 3 floors, accommodating over 500 employees, including the content engineering team that drives the company’s significant global R&D efforts.

With over 4000 employees in India alone, HERE has a breadth of strong, technically skilled software professionals, operating out of the engineering teams in Mumbai, leading the automation efforts, thus enabling disruptive technology solutions reshaping the geospatial industry. The new centre will be the company’s 8th centre in India, with other offices in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Bangalore, making it the biggest operational and developmental hub.

For the last 4 consecutive years, HERE has featured amongst the ‘100 best companies to work in India’ along with being recognized as ‘among the top 25 of India’s best workspaces in IT-IT BPM 2019’ and ‘Best Workplace- Culture of Innovation’ in 2018, by Great Place to Work Institute. With this facility, the company hopes to propel its transformation to a high-performance organization through design and delivery of people practices, policies and programs that enable global talent mobility, operational excellence and scalability, and a one HERE culture i.e. “the HERE way.” The office will feature 3 floors of intelligently designed workspace with state-of-the-art facilities such as uniquely designed collaboration areas and brainstorming rooms, wellness room, event spaces, state of the art experience centre and play zones.

Damandeep Kochhar, Vice President for Global Content Operations in India, says, “India is a key market for us and continues to drive the HERE success story in the region. Over the years, we have grown and evolved to be a true platform company by focusing on the ‘HERE way’ which has designed and implemented processes, tools and people practices, that help our employees to transform, scale and do their best work. The new facility is a strategic investment in the Indian market and will play an important role as an innovation talent hub. It reinforces our commitment to nurture and skill local talent, while accelerating and empowering our clients to stay ahead of the digital transformation curve, as India leapfrogs into a $1 trillion digital economy in the next decade.”