Pleneo has been named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026, taking a top position in the Workplace category, recognising its role in shaping how people interact with technology at work.

The annual list, which also features companies such as Google, Nvidia and Anthropic, highlights organizations redefining industries through design, technology, and real-world impact.

Pleneo’s inclusion reflects a broader shift toward experience-led workplace technology—where usability, simplicity, and adaptability are fundamental to how systems are designed.

In this year’s awards, Fast Company highlighted a workplace shaped by increasing complexity, rapid change, and evolving expectations—where the most meaningful innovations are those that help people work more effectively, with less friction.

Pleneo’s inclusion reflects that shift. By focusing on usability, adaptability, and the lived experience of shared spaces, the company has taken a different approach to workplace technology—one grounded in design thinking and built around the needs of the people using it.

“The challenge has never been adding more technology—it’s making it disappear,” said James Knight, CEO, Pleneo. “This recognition reflects our focus on deeply understanding how people use shared spaces and building solutions that adapt to them—rather than forcing them to adapt to the technology. Everything we design starts with usability and experience.”

Pleneo approaches workplace technology as a complete system—designed from the ground up to be intuitive, consistent, and effortless to deploy. The result is a fundamentally different experience: spaces that work immediately, scale easily, and require little to no training.

“The companies we recognise are those turning bold ideas into real-world impact,” said Brendan Vaughan, editor-in-chief of Fast Company.

This recognition reflects a broader shift in workplace technology—from systems people have to learn, to experiences that simply work.