# The office we built > Two offices, a few years apart. The old one where GlobeMetrix became Prudour, then a new one with three floors. - Author: Rajesh Namase - Published: 2020-02-28 - Category: Craft - Canonical: https://namase.com/prudour-office ---

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Two offices, a few years apart. I stepped down in October 2023. ## The old office One floor. GlobeMetrix first, then Prudour from 2017.
A reception desk against a stacked-stone wall, with the company mark on a white panel and a plant beside it
Reception. That Prudour board is a temporary one, put up when the name changed.
Two men at a desk in the director cabin, laptops open, giving a thumbs up
The director cabin. Pramod Pawar and me.
Two men at the same desk in the director cabin with their laptops, giving a thumbs up
The same desk. Ramkrishna (Pavan) Lipare and Sudhish Mohan.
A wide view of the old office floor, rows of desks with orange partitions and blue chairs, the team at work
The floor, most of it in one frame.
Inside the partitioned desk bays on the old office floor, the team working at their monitors
Inside the partitions, on the same floor.
A bay of desks with orange partitions, four of the team working at their monitors
A bay of desks, mid-morning.
A long row of desks seen down the line, the team at work under a white ceiling
The long row, looking down it.
The old office floor with the stacked-stone wall on the left and the team at their screens
The floor, with the stone wall along one side.
A wide view of the old office floor, orange partitions, wall art at the far end
The far end of the floor.
A pantry corner with an exposed brick wall, framed pictures, hanging pendant lamps and a water cooler
The pantry corner. Pendant lights, and a water cooler.
A blue table tennis table in an empty white room, with a bat left lying on it
The table tennis room. The bat is still on the table.
## The new office Three floors, two of them used.
Frosted glass double doors carrying the company name and mark, set into a dark wood frame
The main door.
A reception counter faced in horizontal slats, the company name in raised letters, and a small shrine on the wall above
Reception. The name in raised letters, and a small shrine above it.
The entrance corridor with the frosted-glass Prudour door, dark wood panelling, a green mat and Diwali decorations hanging from the ceiling
The way in, dressed for Diwali.
The director cabin with a glass-topped desk, black leather chairs, dark wood shelving and geometric pendant lights
The director cabin. Ours.
Rajesh at the glass-topped desk in the director cabin, a MacBook open in front of him
At that desk. June 2021.
The open floor of the new office, long white desks with the team working at monitors under orange columns
The new floor, filled.
A long open floor of desks with the team at their monitors, a stone-clad wall along one side
The long floor.
A group working at a table near a door and window on the new office floor
A table near the door.
Another view of the new office floor with the team at their desks
Another corner of the floor.
A row of the team working at monitors along a shared desk in a bright room
A row at work.
A long row of desks along a window wall, blue chairs, the team at their monitors
The row along the window.
A corner of desks against a dark wood wall, the team at their screens
The corner by the wood wall.
A blue table tennis table under pendant lights in an empty room
The table tennis table, in the canteen.
A long canteen with wooden benches, brightly colored chairs, a slatted wooden ceiling and pendant lamps
The canteen.
A canteen wall covered by a large collage mural, with rows of orange, green and yellow chairs at wooden tables
The mural, and the colored chairs.
The corner of the office building photographed from below, glass and gray banding against the sky
Looking up the corner of the building.