Office a Mess? – How to Dominate Your Upcoming Office Relocation! Part 1
Let me guess, your office is cluttered and there is stuff everywhere. Some of your staff are disorganised and when you look around, you wonder how the hell you are going to arrange a flawless relocation of your office to the new premises and minimise the trading downtime simultaneously.
Your First Step is to know that Complete Removals does this frequently and would love the opportunity to help you!
It’s in the planning and having the right resources to execute the plan. No two office moves are the same and there are always unexpected hurdles to jump, that’s where our experience comes in handy, being able to anticipate and jump these hurdles. A move we performed last week is a perfect example of this.......
We moved the head office of a large Adelaide company last week. When we inspected the job the office was a mess, some of the workstations looked like Zoo Pens. There was a real feeling of disarray as some of the staff had already taken the initiative to start packing their own stuff into supermarket boxes. The company receptionist was organising the move and appeared to be overwhelmed with it all, from what she said, I suspect her Manager palmed off this responsibility because he felt the same.
Glenn, our most experience removalist could see the confusion in this place and took the opportunity to put the receptionist at ease while putting the whole thing in a clear perspective for her. He explained how we would do it, how long it would take with a time buffer built in to tackle any unforeseen hurdles and told her exactly what her first steps needed to be. He provided a great fixed quote with no hidden extras and won the job. We sent 8 experienced office removalists into Adelaide CBD, they arrived in 2 large trucks and a moving van with a combined capacity of 115 cubic meters as you can see in the photo.
Why so many removalists you ask? More men means it gets done faster which minimises trading downtime for your company. Also, more often than not in Office relocations, there are elevators to use, stairs to climb and desks and other furniture to be disassembled and reassembled. These are just a few examples of aspects of office moving that add significant time to the process of relocating office equipment. A great strategy is to task specific removalists with disassembly and reassembly, while other removalists are on the ground floor and upper floors to increase the efficiency of the elevator(s) or stairs.
Pre–Packing correctly is another very important step in moving office successfully. Utilising correct boxes for the correct items is essential for efficiency and the safety of the items being packed. For example: archive cartons can speed up the packing process of filing cabinets tenfold. This is because they have tracks for the suspended files to sit on, the same as the tracks within the filing cabinets themselves. Archive boxes also make it easy to pack your files in sequential order thus minimising the time spent unpacking them back into their specific filing cabinets at the new premises
Super Simple Tip : always write on the sides of your boxes as well as the top. It’s an incredible waste of time and energy to unstack boxes just so you can read what is written on top of them when you can just simply read the sides.
Tune in next Wednesday for the rest of this successful office moving story!
