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What does a parking spot have to do with workplace culture? More than most leaders think, according to this week's guest on Fika Friday at the Office 🎙️ Ram Puranam sat down with Ravi Nanduri VP Real Estate Services at HSBC, for a conversation grounded in over 18 years of corporate real estate experience across Asia Pacific and India, and a career that started not in offices, but in hotels. That hospitality background shapes everything about how Ravi thinks about workplace experience: every touchpoint an employee encounters from the moment they enter the campus to the moment they leave matters. Parking, the lift, the monitor connecting to the laptop, the walk to the coffee point. All of it. A few things worth sitting with: — The best onboarding moment of Ravi's new role at HSBC started with getting lost on the way to the pantry. — Purpose-driven offices are the future. If someone is coming in to spend eight hours on Zoom calls, they could do that anywhere. — Looking busy is not being productive. The nine to five should never come back. — And the office of the future? Think Mercedes MBUX, but for your desk. 🎧 Full episode now live on your favorite podcast platform, link in the comments. #FikaFriday #FikaFridayAtTheOffice #WorkplaceExperience #RealEstate #HybridWork #FutureOfWork #Hospitality #Podcast