Visits to flexible workspaces run by International Workplace Group (IWG) rose sharply in several of India’s smaller cities in the six months to May 2026, the company said, as more employees work closer to home.

IWG, the parent of the Regus and Spaces brands, says aggregate workspace visits in Coimbatore rose 41% compared with the previous six months. Jalandhar followed with 25%, Nashik 21%, Dehradun 19% and Mohali 17%. The company says Indore, Guwahati and other cities also saw double-digit increases. IWG counts attendance through daily Wi-Fi logins.

The comparison covers only centres that were open throughout both periods, June to November 2025 and December 2025 to May 2026. That means the growth reflects more use of existing centres, not newly opened ones. IWG defines Tier-II and Tier-III cities as everything outside Delhi NCR, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata. It did not publish absolute visit numbers, so the percentages cannot be compared with city size.

IWG says it added 43 locations in India in the first half of 2026, while a record 728 new locations were signed worldwide. Recent openings include Bhubaneswar, Malappuram, Udaipur, Vadodara and Guwahati, and over two years it has opened in cities such as Amritsar, Mysuru, Nagpur and Mangaluru. It attributes the pace to a capital-light model, in which it partners with property owners to run the spaces. That model now makes up 95% of its signings, the company says.

The release cites Vestian data, reported by The Realty Today, that Tier-II cities host more than 575 flexible workspace centres, nearly 29% of the national total, with prices up to 50% lower than in the metros. IANS’ report on the same study puts the cities’ share of flex floor space lower, at about 9%, so the 29% refers to the number of centres, not their size.

IWG CEO Christian Schmitz said: “The sharp rise in workspace usage across India’s Tier-II and Tier-III cities shows how businesses and their people are embracing more flexible ways of working.” Harsh Lambah, Country Head and VP Sales SAARC, said ready-to-use workspace lets businesses “set up teams and scale at their own pace without heavy upfront investment.”

The release also cites Colliers research that flexible workspaces are expected to account for 20-25% of India’s office leasing in the near term.