New Delhi [India], August 24 (ANI): Mumbai has emerged as the one Indian metropolis in IWG’s 2026 Work From Anywhere Index, scoring forward of worldwide cities together with London and Miami, as versatile and distant working more and more affect how professionals select the place to work and journey.
Mumbai made its debut within the fourth version of the annual index with a complete rating of 77. Bangkok topped the worldwide rating with a rating of 106.5, adopted by Tokyo at 96.5 and Barcelona at 95.5.
The index evaluates cities on parameters together with local weather, broadband velocity, lodging, transport, meals, tradition and availability of versatile workspaces to evaluate their suitability for professionals working remotely whereas travelling.
Mumbai scored strongly on the price of transport, availability of co-working and versatile workspaces, local weather and lodging. However, town obtained comparatively decrease scores on broadband velocity and high quality, availability of native occasions and the happiness index.
The report additionally cited knowledge from Cushman & Wakefield’s Global Trends in Flexible Office 2025 report, in accordance with which India scored 100 on its versatile workspace maturity index, forward of the UK at 98, France at 97 and the US at 81.
India was additionally the most important versatile workplace market within the Asia-Pacific area, with 79.7 million sq. ft of stock throughout its prime eight cities as of the second quarter of 2025, which is predicted to cross 100 million sq. ft in 2026, in accordance with the discharge.
The index comes as versatile working can also be altering journey patterns globally. Separate analysis commissioned by IWG discovered that 51 per cent of staff surveyed stated their employer already supplied a Work From Anywhere coverage.
‘90% say WFA has improved their work-life stability, and 80% say it has improved productiveness,’ the discharge stated. It added that 62 per cent of respondents would think about altering jobs for a greater Work From Anywhere coverage.
Nearly half, or 48 per cent, of the employees surveyed stated they deliberate to increase a vacation or mini-break by working remotely in 2026, whereas 46 per cent stated they have been extra possible to take action than final 12 months. About 43 per cent stated they’d already labored remotely from a vacation vacation spot with out utilizing annual go away.
However, the office survey was performed amongst 2,000 hybrid workplace staff within the UK and the US between July 6 and July 9, 2026, and subsequently doesn’t characterize Indian staff particularly.
Bangkok, Tokyo and Barcelona have been adopted by Porto and Vancouver within the international prime 5, whereas Budapest, Naples, Medellin, Lisbon and Seoul accomplished the highest 10 work cation locations for 2026. (ANI)