{"id":3790,"date":"2013-07-23T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2013-07-23T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T14:23:47","slug":"uk-isp-plusnet-growth-creates-250-new-jobs-in-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/uk-isp-plusnet-growth-creates-250-new-jobs-in-leeds.html","title":{"rendered":"UK ISP PlusNets Growth and Security Needs to Create 250 Jobs in Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield-based Internet and phone provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/plusnetuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">PlusNet<\/a> has announced that it will open a new office in Leeds (England) during October 2013 that should, over the next three years, result in the creation of at least 250 new jobs (making for a total of 1100 employees by 2016).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s understood that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/plusnetuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">PlusNet<\/a> will be taking over all three floors of the <strong>Marlborough Street<\/strong> building (<em>32,000 sq ft<\/em>), which is currently undergoing a refurbishment effort worth \u00a32 million, as its single tenant.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Jamie Ford, Plusnets CEO, said (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidermedia.com\/insider\/yorkshire\/94825-\" target=\"_blank\">Insider Media<\/a>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>By the end of March 2014, we aim to have up to 100 people working from the Leeds site, largely within customer operations. Sheffield will remain our flagship building and our only 24\/7 operation for the time being. The intention is that both sites will grow over the coming years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The new building gives us extra resilience as a business and I am happy that this site reaffirms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/plusnetuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Plusnet<\/a>&#8217;s commitment to Yorkshire<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ISP and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> sibling claims that, aside from needing to support its growing customer base, there was a need to have a second non-Sheffield site to help ensure business continuity in case of emergency situations (e.g. power cuts and storm disruption etc.). Credits to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/thinkbroadband\" target=\"_blank\">Thinkbroadband<\/a> for spotting this first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheffield-based Internet and phone provider PlusNet has announced that it will open a new office in Leeds (England) during October 2013 that should, over the next three years, result in the creation of at least 250 new jobs (making for a total of 1100 employees by 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,84],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-plusnet"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK ISP PlusNets Growth and Security Needs to Create 250 Jobs in Leeds - 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