News on 3 November 2000
Sun Microsystems has announced the completion of the first
two buildings of its new Thames Valley office complex Guillemont Park,
at Blackwater near Camberley. The building will accommodate 1,500 employees
covering functions such as sales, support, human resources, finance and
legal.
Three more buildings for development, EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa)
and additional support staff are due for completion in the first half
of 2002. When complete, the campus will represent an investment by the
company of over £100m and will consist of five buildings providing
46,500 sq m of office space.
The first two buildings – Java House and Solaris House – have
been designed to provide a flexible working environment. One such flexibility
is hot-desking which is used to encourage employees to work wherever their
tasks are most easily and effectively completed.
Shanker Trivedi, vice president for Sun in the UK and Ireland said the
company wanted its employees to be able to work in whatever way made them
most productive and effective, and in an environment that would enable
them to be creative and innovative. He also stated that the company’s
customers were to feel welcome and to benefit as much as possible from
meeting with Sun.
In addition to the opening of Guillemont Park, Sun has also announced
the opening of its multi-million pound software development centre in
Watford, Hertfordshire. The centre, which currently houses 25 software
engineers, is expected to double in size over the next 12 months.
