Ceridian’s new UK flagship office officially opens in Glasgow

Expansion in Scotland will lead to an additional 300 jobs over next five years

Article posted: 22 Jun 2011

The new offices in Glasgow of one of the world’s leading providers of payroll and HR outsourcing services, Ceridian, were officially opened yesterday by Fergus Ewing, Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism at the Scottish Government. The HR Shared Service Centre is the largest facility of its type anywhere within the UK.

The brand new, purpose-built building will ultimately provide hi-tech office space in Braehead, near Glasgow to around 600 personnel. It represents a total investment of over £16m, which was supported by a substantial contribution from the Scottish Government through Scottish Enterprise. The HR Shared Serviced Centre is currently occupied by over 300 Ceridian staff and has room to accommodate around 600. The company expects to create up to 300 new jobs over the next five years.

Doug Sawers, managing director, Ceridian UK, said: “Our new UK flagship location near Glasgow is a showcase for our entire payroll and HR outsourced services, which are all now under one roof. This allows our colleagues to work in a more customer-centric way. Previously, our colleagues worked from five, smaller linked sites just a mile away in Hillington.

 “These are exciting times for Ceridian and the nature of our recent growth has led to a higher than originally planned ratio of highly skilled jobs. We anticipate creating up to 300 new jobs in the Glasgow area alone. The vacancies we expect to fill will comprise a mixture of IT development, client solutioning, business services and service innovation positions, coupled with operational service delivery roles including multi-lingual capability.”

Ceridian opened its first office in Glasgow in 2000. Since 2007, employee numbers have risen from around 80 people to the current headcount of 309. The company also operates out of office space in Leeds, West Yorkshire and has offices in Reading, Berkshire and Manchester.

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