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Workplace Professional Network · WPN
Launch phase · Founding cohort

The professional network for the people who make workplaces work.

WPN is being built for Corporate Buyers, Workplace Experts, Manufacturers, Suppliers, Contractors, Facility Managers and Consultants — deliberately, with founding members shaping every feature. We won't fake activity to look bigger.

  • Corporate Buyers Welcome
See what's live
Live
Founding Members — open
Applications reviewed weekly. 500 seats before public launch.
Live
Founding Experts — open
Verified experts onboarded personally. Directory launches with the cohort.
Coming soon
Verified expert directory
Goes live once the founding expert cohort is fully onboarded.
Coming soon
Weekly workplace digest
AI-summarised news, standards, research and trends — join the early-access list.
Discover

What's happening in the network

Live signals from Knowledge, Marketplace, Events and the Activity Engine — no fake activity, only real posts as founding members join.

Live · WPN Activity Feed

What the workplace network is doing right now

A unified stream of signals from Knowledge, Marketplace and the Activity Engine — sorted by most recent.

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Community health · authentic numbers

Real signals from the network — no vanity metrics.

Every count below is a row you or another founding member wrote into the platform. We show zero when it's zero.

Founding members
Applications received
Credential-verified 1:1
Expert applications
Buyer requirements registered
Marketplace signals
Suggested by the network
Research topics
Webinars & roundtables
Sessions proposed
Who's applying

A cross-section of the workplace industry — by design.

Silhouettes shown until founding members publish their profiles. We don't populate the network with stock photos.

See member benefits
Corporate Admin Head
Enterprise SaaS · 900 seats
Bengaluru
Workplace Consultant
Change management
Mumbai
Facility Head
GCC · 3 campuses
Hyderabad
Architect · Principal
Interiors & workplace
Delhi NCR
PMC Director
Fit-out delivery
Pune
Manufacturer
Modular systems
Chennai
Participate

Ask, discuss, gather

Bring your workplace question, join a working group, or attend the next session.

Discussion boards
Coming soon

Discussion boards launch with our founding members.

We won't ship placeholder threads or fake reply counts. Vote on the topic you want first — the ones with the most demand open on day one, seeded by verified experts.

Workplace Design
Neurodiversity-inclusive workplace design at scale

Proposed candidate — help us prioritise which board opens first.

FM & Operations
Hybrid occupancy sensors — what actually held up in a 12-month rollout

Proposed candidate — help us prioritise which board opens first.

Cost & Procurement
Fitout ₹/sq.ft benchmarks across Indian metros — 2026 edition

Proposed candidate — help us prioritise which board opens first.

Materials
Real acoustic performance (STC) in open studios vs brochure claims

Proposed candidate — help us prioritise which board opens first.

Change & People
Change-management playbooks for a 4-day office return

Proposed candidate — help us prioritise which board opens first.

Sustainability
IGBC Platinum on a mid-market fitout budget — realistic or myth?

Proposed candidate — help us prioritise which board opens first.

Ask the network
Coming soon

Send your first workplace question. We'll route it to a founding expert.

Q&A opens when founding experts are onboarded. Until then, every question here is stored in Central Hub and personally answered by a Habitat expert — no fake AI reply, no bot.

Ask a workplace expert

Submit a real workplace question. A Habitat expert will reply by email and, with your permission, publish the answer as the first entry in that topic's board.

Best chair for 8-hour hybrid use under ₹35k?
Fitout timeline for 200-seat office — realistic weeks?
How to write an RFQ for modular workstations?
Best-in-class biophilic materials for Indian humidity?
Answered personally · Not published without your consent
Workplace interest groups
Coming soon

Vote for the first interest group we open.

Peer-led rooms for the exact niche you work in. We'll open the top-voted groups first with founding experts already inside — no empty rooms.

Hybrid Workplace Design
Design
FM Leaders India
Operations
Workplace Sustainability
ESG
Materials & Finishes
Materials
Cost & Procurement
Commercial
Change & Culture
People
Smart Buildings & IoT
Tech
Neurodiverse Workspaces
Inclusion
Events calendar
Coming soon

Industry calendar launches soon — propose the first sessions.

We won't fill the calendar with placeholder webinars. Propose a session or register interest — we open sessions with real demand behind them.

Register your interest

Join the notify list — we email you when sessions open in your city or theme.

Suggest a webinar

What should we host first? Sessions with the most demand ship first.

Become a speaker

Founding experts get first slots on the WPN roundtable circuit.

Founding cohort

Why the first 500 members shape everything that follows.

WPN is not a mass social network. The founding cohort sets the tone — the standards, the research questions, the way experts are verified, the RFQs that reach the marketplace. Every founding member's application is read personally, and the product roadmap responds to what they tell us.
See who WPN is for
Contribute

Shape the standards of the industry

Founding experts, research programs, awards and real project stories — the substance the network is built on.

Verified experts
Coming soon

Founding Experts — applications open.

We won't publish invented expert profiles. The directory opens once founding experts are credential-verified and portfolio-reviewed by Habitat. Apply now to be one of the first.

Founding Expert benefits

Shape the WPN Expert Directory from day one

  • Verified badge, lifetime founding-expert recognition
  • First look at Corporate Buyer questions and roundtable invites
  • Say in what the directory measures and how experts are ranked
  • Featured Q&A responses cross-linked from Knowledge and Materials
Specialties we're recruiting
Workplace strategy
Fitout consulting
PMC / project management
Sustainability (IGBC / LEED / WELL)
Acoustic design
Lighting design
MEP consulting
Facility transformation
Change management
Interior design
Cost engineering
Fire safety & compliance

Don't see your specialty? Add it in your application — we're building the taxonomy with founding experts, not before them.

Expert directory · pre-launch

A directory that earns the word "verified".

The searchable directory unlocks after the founding expert cohort is credential-verified. Here's the shape it will take.

Featured Experts
After first 25 verifications

Curated by Habitat based on portfolio depth, published answers and roundtable contributions.

Recently Joined
Live once first expert is verified

Rolling feed of newly onboarded founding experts with their specialties.

Search by Category
Categories opening below

Filter by workplace discipline, city, project scale and typology.

Verified Experts
Credential + portfolio reviewed 1:1

Verified badge, right to publish official Ask-an-Expert answers, first look at buyer questions.

Expert categories opening
Workplace Strategy
Change Management
Acoustics & Wellbeing
Sustainability & WELL
Interior Architecture
MEP & Services
Facilities Operations
Cost & Contracts
Vendor Management

The taxonomy is co-authored with founding experts — add your specialty during application if you don't see it here.

Industry research & surveys
Coming soon

WPN research programme — contributors wanted.

We won't publish invented survey numbers. Register to co-author the first WPN research reports, or nominate a topic you'd contribute anonymised data to.

Annual Report
State of Indian Workplaces 2026
Live Survey
Return-to-Office: What Actually Drives Attendance
Benchmark
Fitout Cost Index — Indian metros
Survey
Neurodiversity at Work — Design Standards Pulse
Proprietary research

A permanent research program, not one-off reports.

Four flagship studies run on a fixed cadence. Founding members get the raw data, the workshop and the byline.

See published insights
Quarterly Workplace Index
Every quarter

Occupancy, utilisation, cost per seat, hybrid split and vendor performance across founding-member workplaces.

Annual Admin Survey
Once a year

The definitive survey of Corporate Admin Heads on tooling, budget authority, vendor pain and priorities.

Office Fit-out Cost Survey
Bi-annual

Real, anonymised cost benchmarks by city, typology and quality tier — a substitute for anecdotal WhatsApp numbers.

Hybrid Workplace Survey
Annual

Employee and employer expectations on hybrid work, mapped against real return-to-office outcomes.

Challenges & innovation awards
Coming soon

Awards programme in design — help us define what to recognise.

We won't announce categories or fake shortlists until the jury is real. Vote for what WPN should recognise first — categories with real demand get built.

Best Hybrid Workplace
Buyer-side outcomes
Sustainability Innovation Award
IGBC / LEED / WELL
Emerging Workplace Designer of the Year
Rising experts
Project post-mortems
Coming soon

Contribute the first WPN project post-mortem.

We won't invent case studies. Corporate Buyers, Experts and Contractors — share the story of one project you're proud of (or learned from). We help you write it, and cross-link it into Knowledge and Materials.

Tell your project story

Fitout, relocation, retrofit, acoustic redesign, sustainability upgrade — the projects most useful to the network are the ones where something didn't go to plan. We keep names / clients confidential if you prefer.

Roadmap

How the network unfolds

  1. Phase 1 · Now
    Founding cohort

    Applications open for members and experts. Personal onboarding, invite-only working groups.

  2. Phase 2 · Next
    Expert directory live

    Verified expert directory unlocks once the founding expert cohort is fully onboarded.

  3. Phase 3
    Public discussions & digest

    Discussions, Ask an Expert and the weekly workplace digest open to registered members.

  4. Phase 4
    Marketplace & research GA

    RFQs, supplier network and the quarterly Workplace Index open to the wider industry.

Grow

Sharpen your practice

Every discussion connects into Knowledge, Marketplace, Materials, Planning and the AI Workplace Advisor.

Founding Contributors
Coming soon

Founding Contributors — recognition programme launching soon.

We won't publish a fake leaderboard. Once founding experts start answering questions and publishing guides, this becomes the honest record — no vanity points.

Verified answers
Answering workplace questions from Corporate Buyers.
Published playbooks
Peer-reviewed guides in the Knowledge base.
Templates & checklists
Reusable artefacts other members can adapt.
Anonymised benchmarks
Cost, timeline and performance data shared with the network.
Become one of the first recognised contributors on WPN.
Knowledge base
Coming soon

Knowledge base is filling — contribute the artefact you wish existed.

We won't seed the library with placeholder guides. Contribute a playbook, template or benchmark — we'll help you polish it and cross-link it into Materials and Marketplace.

Contribute a playbook, template or benchmark

A Habitat editor will polish it, credit you, and cross-link it into Materials and Marketplace.

Marketplace
Coming soon

Tell us what you need — Marketplace launches with real demand.

No placeholder RFQs, no fake supplier counts. Corporate Buyers, tell us what you're procuring; Suppliers & Contractors, tell us what you'd bid on. We'll open Marketplace with the categories and pipeline that already exist.

Corporate Buyers — need help sourcing?

Tell us what you're procuring (furniture, fitout, consulting, material). Habitat will help you find verified vendors while Marketplace matures.

Suppliers, Contractors & Manufacturers

Register interest to be a Founding Supplier. First-vetted suppliers get early access to Corporate Buyer requirements as Marketplace opens.

AI Community Assistant
Coming soon

AI Workplace Advisor — early access opens with founding members.

Once WPN's Knowledge base and expert answers reach critical mass, the Advisor grounds every response in real member-authored content. We won't ship a hallucinating chat first.

Example questions we're grounding for
Find me experts who've done fintech HQ fitouts in Bengaluru.
Summarise the top hybrid-workplace discussions this month.
Draft an RFQ for 200-seat modular workstations.
What did WPN members say about IGBC Platinum on tight budgets?
Community standards
Live

What makes WPN different from a generic forum.

Participation guidelines authored by Habitat, enforced by moderators, respected by members from day one.

Full guidelines
Verified identity

Every member is credential- and role-verified before posting.

Substance over self-promotion

Share real data, real playbooks and real lessons — not sales pitches.

Respect the ecosystem

Buyers, experts and suppliers all belong here. Disagree with the idea, not the person.

Peer-reviewed knowledge

Guides and benchmarks are reviewed by experts before publishing to WPN Knowledge.

What you get on day one

An operating system for workplace professionals — not another feed.

Founding members get their own private workspace, access to the curated Knowledge base, early Marketplace access, and a direct line to the team building the platform. The signal-to-noise ratio is the point.
See member benefits
Marketplace · invitation to bid

Current requirements from the network.

Early invitations rather than active RFQs — a preview of how Community feeds Marketplace once founding buyers open real tenders.

Open Marketplace
Consultants
Looking for an Acoustic Consultant
Open-plan office · 380 seats · Bengaluru
Suppliers
Looking for Modular Furniture Supplier
Workstations + huddle rooms · GCC fit-out · Hyderabad
PMC
Looking for a PMC
Multi-city rollout · 3 sites · Interiors + MEP oversight
Consultants
Looking for a Change Management partner
Return-to-office program · 1200 employees
Join

Become a founding member

Applications open for Corporate Buyers, Workplace Experts, Suppliers and Manufacturers.

Founding Member applications open

Help build India's Workplace Professional Network.

Become a Founding Member. Influence the roadmap. Connect with peers. Shape future workplace standards. Corporate Admin Heads, Facility Heads, Architects, PMCs, Workplace Consultants, Manufacturers and Suppliers — every founding application is read personally, and the first 500 members shape everything that follows.

  • Influence the roadmap — features ship based on what founding members tell us.
  • Connect with peers — invite-only roundtables and working groups from day one.
  • Shape the standards — expert taxonomy, cost benchmarks, research questions.
  • Lifetime founding badge — permanent recognition on your WPN profile.
How WPN works
Reviewed personally No fake activity, ever Lifetime founding badge
Launch signal

Where the network is heading

News signals
Weekly

Curated workplace updates

Workplace Index
Quarterly

Proprietary research — coming soon

Expert onboarding
1:1

Every founding expert, personally

Fake activity
Zero

Real signals only