GAME consoles, ping pong tables and spiral slides connecting floors — could this be Australia’s most enviable office space?

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Premier Will Hodgeman will today officially open the new Vodafone customer care centre in Hobart’s central business district.

Located across three levels in developer Ali Sultan’s latest building on the corner of Bathurst and Argyle streets, the office is the telco’s flagship Australian call centre and will be home to more than 1000 workers.

Vodafone announced the closure of its Kingston call centre last week and the plan to move more than 300 workers into the Hobart hub.

media_camera Anna Dawson playing basketball with Anthony Shaw at the new Vodafone office in Hobart.

Vodafone customer care general manager Matt Paterson said the company hoped to have all staff working from the purpose-built Hobart centre by September.

“This is our flagship across Australia so we are centralising most of our operations in Hobart and that’s where we are building a workforce of more than 1000 people,” he said.

“Making the decision to invest in this way was to show the long term investment in Tassie and to attract a lot of staff as we grow.”

Mr Paterson said the space was modelled off a Vodafone contact centre in Newbury, England.

It features a games area with ping pong tables, Xbox and Wii game consoles, and basketball hoops and instead of taking the stairs down to the next level, employees can jump down one of the spiral tube slides.

The fitout also includes meeting pods and ‘energise’ zones where workers can relax and refuel.

“We really wanted a place where staff wanted to come not just as a place of work but as a destination where people can feel it’s a great environment for fun, health and wellbeing as well as servicing our customers,” Mr Paterson said.

“I think personally this is one of the best contact centres in Australia in terms of the way its fitted out and what staff are actually saying.”