Virgin Media O2 UK Set to Open New Office in Lanarkshire
Broadband and mobile operator Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) has today announced that they will open a new office within the business community at Maxim Park in Lanarkshire (Scotland) during early 2025, which will ultimately become home to around 350 employees that are currently based at their Bellshill office in the same region.
With the lease at its current site in Bellshill due to expire shortly, VMO2 went on the hunt for a new home and found the Maxim Park site (Maxim 4 building). The operator will, over the next few months, be working closely with the landlord to install the necessary furniture, fixtures and fittings ahead of employees moving to the site in Spring 2025.
Maxim 4 will become Virgin Media and O2’s second major new office space since its merger in June 2021. The company is separately preparing to move teams into a new HQ in Paddington by the end of the year, and they also have other core office locations in Wythenshawe, Reading, Birmingham and Leeds.
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Patricia Cobian, VMO2’s Chief Financial Officer, said:
“We identified a number of potential locations in our search for a new office in Lanarkshire and have secured our preferred choice, Maxim Park, which is already a thriving business community and the modern, spacious home to a number of the UK’s biggest companies .
Located a very short distance from our current Bellshill office, and with excellent amenities and transport links, we are confident that Maxim Park will prove to be a popular choice with our employees who will now have a flexible space to work, collaborate and socialise together on their office days.
As a flexible employer, Maxim Park is ideally sized to support our hybrid working policies and this long-term commitment is further proof of our exciting property plans which are helping us meet the current and future needs of our business and people.”
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No wonder the out of contract prices are eye watering. Quite a few big campus offices, the Reading one is quite plush. Hammersmith London office is 25,000 square feet too and refreshed. There was also a large one on business estate at Peterborough, so more locations than in the article.
Out of contract prices are high in order to encourage users to sign new contracts so that they can recognise the recurrent revenue on their accounts for the fixed-term of the contract.
It’s not a bad thing that their employees get to work in nice offices. Some local businesses are also getting paid to prepare and maintain those offices.
They shut down the office in Bellshill, Sitel open one in Maxim Park and operate the VM contract there and now VM direct are opening one in Maxim park. This is after Teleperformance shut their VM operations in Airdrie. What a farce of a company. All that disruption to their employees lives. All the while their customers are waiting 3 hours on hold.
Does this mean they will be shutting the terrible off shore customer service? It is hard work and I never know if it’s a scam. Call centres should be in the uk
Nope.
So where will be the “savings” be going… not to the same scammers who use VM database to scam us.
Really, they are feeling the pinch of the alt nets. Good as I have moved on to community fibre and so far so good.