Smart workplace Awards is a unique platform conceptualised by The Economic Times and Acer & Intel with the objective of creating a national level competition for offices in India. This award is a designed framework, incorporating the technologically advanced processes that have been implemented in many organisations. A momentous occasion for the participants to claim the title as a forward-looking establishment effectively progressing in today’s modern world.

The awards are meant to recognise offices that are ‘Smart’ :

• Through making life easy for employees and customers
• Empowering employees
• Increasing their ability to stay connected through use of technology

The Awards are targeted at organisations across the following major cities:-
Delhi (NCR), Chandigarh, Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad and Cochin, Kolkata

The Categories of Awards are to be based on the following criteria:

• Size of an Organization (small, medium and large)
• Verticals - Financial Services (FS), Other Services (OS), Industrial Markets (IM), Consumer Markets (CM), Infrastructure (I) and Information-Communication-Entertainment (ICE).
• Evaluation criteria broadly based upon the following:
     - Technology infrastructure, Security & Mobility
     - Office infrastructure
     - Employee engagement