businessinfomag.uk 22 magazine conferencing room, dark room full of screens (when Business Info visited, it was being used for a hackathon), a ‘walk and talk’ room with a treadmill workstation, a massage chair room, individual work rooms with sit-stand desks and drop-in work pods. All are bookable, except for the pods. Shared spaces include a restaurant, an Italian bar where Thursday evening drinks are held, roof terraces and town hall areas where the whole company can meet. In addition to UK&I personnel, the London office houses around 50% of Monday’s EMEA leadership team, as well as its regional go‑tomarket, AI, HR, legal and R&D teams. The latter, as Berlin points out, are likely to be particualrly busy in the coming months as they continue to advance the company’s product roadmap. “We launched Monday Service in Q1 of this year, so strengthening Monday Service is important. We will continue to grow Dev and CRM and are regularly adding more features to those solutions. We are also, very importantly, strengthening work management, which is the core of our solution, with the new resource management and portfolio management feature. This was demanded by our customers and is essential for that journey upmarket. The next step is really continuing what we are already doing and integrating AI into more features within CRM, Dev and Service.” www.monday.com workplace (or the two floors already occupied) an attractive destination for clients and, more importantly, for employees – not just to aid recruitment and retention in the competitive tech talent market, but also to support its hybrid working policy. This prioritises in-office collaboration, with a mandatory three days per week in the office (the same three days for all team members). In practice, most employees come in four days a week, and with free food and drink and no shortage of spaces offering the peace and quiet needed for concentrated work, it is easy to see why. The offices are spacious with a youthful, somewhat retro décor and eclectic UK-sourced furniture and artworks. In addition to open plan working areas, there are 50 meeting/collaboration rooms, including a living room, EMEA expansion The opening of Monday’s new UK office, which also looks after the Nordics and serves as Monday’s EMEA headquarters, coincides with the establishment of offices in Munich, for the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), and in Paris, in addition to Monday’s existing presence in almost every country in the region, either directly or through channel partners. Of these three ‘hubs’, London is much the largest – the headcounts in Paris and Munich are 25 and 20 respectively, albeit with the intention to double their size in the next 12 months – and, in the words of Berlin it’s “the playbook of how we are going to scale Monday’s offices in France and Germany”. On that basis, Monday staff in those countries have much to look forward to because the company’s in-house design team has gone to great lengths to make the London SOFTWARE …continued
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