Neighbourhood (in ABW)

In Activity-Based Working, a neighbourhood is a loosely defined zone of the floor plate that is home territory for a specific team or business unit. Neighbourhoods solve the belonging problem of pure hot-desking: even though no desk is permanently assigned, employees from a team are expected to locate within their neighbourhood, which typically includes a mix of open desks, a collaboration table, a phone pod, and team storage.

Neighbourhoods are typically sized for 15–30 people and differentiated through subtle design cues — colour accents, dedicated storage, team name on a low-height panel — rather than hard partitions. In a well-designed ABW floor for a 300-person Pune GCC, six to eight neighbourhoods might be distributed across the floor, with shared amenity spaces in the centre or at the core.

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