The unit has been renamed Optima 125, and is available for immediate occupation. 

The site is 6.65 acres with a frontage highly visible from the A326. It is next to or near well-known businesses such as Garmin’s European headquarters and Ferrari servicing specialist Meridien Modena.

 

Some of its selling points are a significant power supply, great car parking capacity and a fully installed sprinkler system. Soon to be added are further features such as electric car charging points and more parking spaces. 

 

Adrian Whitfield, director at LSH’s South Coast offices, said: “It is extremely rare for a unit of this size and quality to become available in the region – we believe Optima 125 is the largest unit of its kind currently on the market. As well as its size and location, the property has a number of outstanding features including a significant 1500kVA electricity supply.

 

“We are very excited about Optima 125, which we believe will attract substantial interest from potential occupiers working in the port-related, online retail, logistics and warehousing sectors.”

 

Marcus Langlands Pearse, Director of Property at TH Real Estate, said: “Optima 125 is an institutional quality building with all the bells and whistles. I was drawn to the location being a stone’s throw from Southampton Docks and the City Centre as well having very easy access to the motorway network. Given the constraints on available space in the area, we expect there to be considerable interest in the building and we look forward to working with an incoming tenant.”

 

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Once Optima 125 starts gaining new tenants, it will be in high demand given its desirability of location and other features. It is likely to be used as a warehouse facility, for storage or transport or perhaps the first stages of production. Depending on the company, they may choose to put some office space in for payroll/admin staff, or for meetings.

 

Many people think of clocking in and out as something which only applies to factory and warehouse workers, or only to people who are paid by the hour. While it is certainly vital in those circumstances to ensure correct payroll at the end of the week or month, at Time and Attendance Southern we believe it has its place in salaried office work, too. 

 

For example, it helps to quantify lateness. Many managers know little more than “this staff member is always late”. 

 

This is difficult to understand or to act upon, whereas if they had to clock in every time using our flagship WINTA.NET software, the manager could show the employee a colourful, graphical display which clearly and undeniably showed that they were late every Tuesday and Thursday after lunch. 

 

This would give the late staff member a chance to either explain their lateness, or to see that it has become a pattern for no reason. 

 

Our time and attendance software can be set up to send alerts to the managers once lateness or absences have hit a certain threshold, so they can stop worrying about needing to notice and remember the start times of every single member of staff.