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.
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.”