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Office Relocation 2026: by train to Florence

Tenth Relocation since 2015, the first by train. From 29 August to 5 September 2026 the team worked from the Social Hub Belfiore in Florence: 18 people, three workshops, travelling by train via Milan.

The team stands on an outdoor staircase painted with flowers between new buildings, evening light.

Athens, Lisbon, now Florence. The Relocation week is a fixed part of how we work: the team in another place for a week, work from 8:00 to 16:00, then the city. What was new this time was the journey. For the first time, nobody flew. We worked at the Social Hub Belfiore, a building that combines hotel and workspaces and is designed for exactly this kind of week.

Train instead of plane

Bern, Milano Centrale, Florence: one change, arrival in the middle of the city. Hand luggage is enough for a week, and anyone who wanted to work on the train could. The decision was less a matter of principle than of arithmetic: shorter total travel time from Bern than via an airport, no transfer, lower emissions. For Florence it added up. For the next destination we will look again.

The main façade of Milano Centrale with its columns and arcades, the wide forecourt in front in daylight.
Changing trains at Milano Centrale, halfway to Florence.

Three workshops

As in Lisbon, the mornings belonged to the workshops: one hour on each of three days, three topics, all in the same room. What is new is that the topics come from the current year: the ISO certification, our project management in Jira and HTTP caching.

In the ISO workshop we played an interactive Kahoot quiz. There was a lot of laughter, and we still learnt quite a bit.

Around ten people sit with laptops at tables in front of a screen, one person presents in front of a yellow wall.
Three mornings in the Social Hub’s workroom.

Florence after work

Mercato Centrale for lunch, Santo Spirito in the evening, a roof terrace with a view of the Duomo.

A wooden table on a roof terrace in the evening light, on it a spritz and nachos with guacamole, the skyline of Florence behind.
Roof terrace after 16:00, the dome small on the horizon.

Florence is compact: everything was within walking distance of the hotel, which is ideal for a team that scatters in small groups after 16:00 and meets up again for dinner.

The illuminated façade of Santa Croce at night, the wide, almost empty square in front.
Evening in the city: Piazza Santa Croce.

On Friday the team cooked for itself: gelato and pizza, with guidance, and results that were better than expected.

Three people in aprons printed with a cooking school’s name stand at a marble counter with topped pizza bases, a brick fireplace behind.
Friday at the cooking school: pizza in front of the fireplace.

‘What stays with me from this trip: a colleague who travelled without ID, my first tequila shot ever, and Chris, who checked out with “Coming a bit later, somehow ended up at a 5-course dinner”. Pizza master Matteo asked the most important question of the week: “How do I safe this pizza?” And in the karaoke bar, four lads sang “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield. What exactly happened there fittingly remains unwritten.’

Hugo Duarte, Fullstack Software Developer

The Office Relocation has been part of cloudtec since the early days; we only started writing about it in 2021. It has long been a fixed date that nobody in the team questions. Where we go in 2027, we decide together. If you want to be there: careers.

Written by Trevor Timmers COO / Senior Project Manager

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