Worldwide Office Group (IWG), the world’s largest supplier of versatile workspaces, is ready to open a state-of-the-art Regus facility in Thika because it scales up operations in response to rising demand for hybrid and versatile working throughout Kenya.
The brand new centre, positioned at Zuhura Place in Thika, marks the newest addition to IWG’s increasing Kenyan footprint and underscores the corporate’s technique to determine a presence in fast-growing industrial hubs past Nairobi’s central enterprise district.
The Thika opening comes as IWG continues to welcome companies to its not too long ago launched HQ workspace at The Brick Mall alongside Thindigua–Kiambu Highway. The three-storey mall, which opened within the third quarter of 2025, has attracted sturdy curiosity from each established corporations and start-ups in search of premium non-public places of work, co-working areas, assembly rooms and artistic zones. Its proximity to Nairobi CBD and availability of on-site parking have made it a most well-liked base for organisations working in Kiambu County.
Firms securing house at The Brick Mall may also get pleasure from precedence entry to order places of work on the upcoming Zuhura Place facility, enabling them to determine a strategic community presence throughout two of Kenya’s fastest-growing industrial nodes.
IWG’s Thika growth follows a record-breaking efficiency by the group, which not too long ago posted its highest-ever income, money circulation and earnings progress. The corporate additionally recorded fast community growth, signing and opening extra areas within the first half of 2025 than in its total first decade of operations. Its world community now spans a couple of million rooms throughout 121 nations.
The six-storey Zuhura Place constructing, which opened in December 2025, is designed to serve each established corporations and start-ups throughout various sectors, together with metal merchandise, meals processing, prescribed drugs and light-weight manufacturing. Thika and its surrounding areas are house to a spread of industries similar to metal mills, chemical manufacturing, and rubber and leather-based tanning, making the city a key industrial and industrial hub.
The brand new Regus centre will provide non-public places of work, co-working areas, assembly rooms and artistic areas, alongside IWG’s “Design Your Personal Workplace” service, which permits corporations to totally customise their workspace to swimsuit operational wants.
In accordance with IWG, the constructing homeowners partnered with the group to maximise returns on their actual property funding by tapping into the quickly increasing demand for hybrid working fashions. Analysis has persistently proven that versatile working preparations enhance worker work-life steadiness, cut back prices and ship well being advantages, whereas employers profit from larger productiveness and better workforce engagement.
Latest analysis by IWG and office consultancy Arup discovered that hybrid working can enhance productiveness by as much as 11 per cent. Globally, versatile work fashions are projected to account for as much as 30 per cent of all industrial actual property by 2030, as organisations of all sizes undertake decentralised, cost-efficient office methods.
IWG CEO and Founder Mark Dixon stated the Thika opening represents a crucial step in strengthening the group’s presence in Kenya. “We’re establishing a stronger and much-needed footprint in Thika with this newest opening. As an essential enterprise hub, Zuhura Place is a incredible location to advance our growth plans,” he stated.
Dixon added that the partnership with Wakati Restricted will ship a cutting-edge workspace that responds to shifting workforce expectations. “Extra corporations are discovering that versatile and platform working improves worker satisfaction whereas delivering important advantages to companies. Our mannequin permits organisations to scale up or down at decreased value whereas accessing 1000’s of areas globally,” he famous.
Susan Irungu, Managing Director at Wakati Restricted, stated the collaboration indicators Thika’s rising significance as a industrial vacation spot. “This partnership with IWG is greater than a enterprise association; it’s a assertion about Thika’s potential. By connecting our purchasers to a world workspace ecosystem, we’re elevating our service providing and showcasing Thika as a thriving node inside IWG’s worldwide community,” she stated.
Worldwide Office Group operates 1000’s of areas in additional than 120 nations, with members accessing workspaces and enterprise companies via the IWG app. In 2024 alone, the group welcomed 899 new accomplice areas and counts 83 per cent of Fortune 500 corporations amongst its prospects, positioning it to capitalise on the accelerating world shift in the direction of versatile and hybrid work.
