BT-Best Cities To Work Play & Live-2009

Changing work culture, transformed lifestyles and rise of the services industry make ‘Life after Work’ about as important as ‘Life at Work’. Chronicling this trend for the first time, BT’s ranking of best cities shows some big changes: Big cities are ceding ground to smaller ones…

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Executive summary: What makes a city a destination of choice for today’s urban worker? Most people living, working and playing in today’s fast-paced corporate environment are desperate for a sound business infrastructure that includes good opportunities for jobs, quick and efficient ways to travel to work and good credit for entrepreneurial opportunities. But when the sun sets, and it’s time to unwind, today’s worker also craves decent watering holes, multiplexes to watch the latest Bond movie, and for the overly energetic, a club to dance the night away. That’s not all though. Today’s urban worker expects a safe civic environment—especially for women— good hospitals, schools and parks, and the one thing that Indians constantly pray for—but seldom get—namely, regular power supply.

Which is why, this year, Business Today’s Best Cities Survey divvies up cities on the basis of how they stack up in ‘Life at Work’ as well as ‘Life after Work’…