Published on the 18/01/2016 | Written by Newsdesk
Local telecoms giant to cross the Harbour Bridge…
In shifting out of the CBD and into Smales Farm, Vodafone said it will create a ‘workplace of the future’ and a ‘working environment which is truly digitally enabled’ in a smart building. That’s according to company CEO Russell Stanners.
“We set the bar in 2005 with the office at the Viaduct. We are poised to move that bar significantly higher with the design and technology behind our new Auckland home at Smales Farm in 2017,” he said.
Some 1800 people are employed by the telecoms operator across four locations in Auckland. The company said the workforce will be concentrated in the new premises, which it also claimed will be the first of its kind in the country.
The existing Vodafone building at Smales Farm is being refurbished with an eye on incorporating the sort of smart technology recently seen at CES 2016; in a statement, the company said ‘everything in the building will be enabled by the smartphone, wireless enabled, voice and video aware and also incorporate virtual reality’.
“This is about more than just the building,” added Stanners. “It’s about what we can do with our technology and our working practices to lead the rest of New Zealand and show them the future.”
The company said over one third of the existing Smales Farm footprint ‘will be dedicated to the Vodafone branded innovation’.
