North Ryde. Optus looks for more space

Optus has appointed CB Richard Ellis to look for potential sites of up to 5000 square metres, in Macquarie Park. Optus relocated its head office from North Sydney, in 2007, to a $350 million state-of-the-art complex, the largest single tenant campus-style workplace in Australia, with a total gross floor area of 159,400 square metres, which includes 84,000 square metres of net lettable area and basement car parking for over 2000 vehicles.

Benefits of relocating to business parks

One of the appeals of business parks over traditional locations, say, the Parramatta CBD, for companies looking to relocate is the benefits that can be offered to employees. For example, Optus has relocated its head office and other operations, and more than 6000 staff, to an 84,000-square-metre campus of six buildings, at Macquarie Park, which offers food outlets, a gym, a basketball court, childcare centre and sprawling gardens. Before choosing Macquarie Park, Optus mapped out the homes of all employees so as to find a location that caused minimum distruption, according to an article in "Boss" magazine.