Packed Up And Ready: Making Your Office Move Painless
Just like moving homes can be stressful, moving your office from one location to another may feel like a gargantuan task. However, with careful planning and execution, it doesn't have to be. Use these tips to turn moving day into an easier, more seamless process, and instead focus on the excitement of moving to a new and better space for your business.
Hire Professionals
As a business, it can be tempting to think of your staff as stand-in movers — but it's important to resist this mindset. Hiring a professional team of office removalists removes the stress and strain of this work from your employees, who are not trained to do it. That way, they can focus their attention on transitioning their work to this new space, whether that involves updating contact details, contacting customers or constructing a new filing system that better utilizes the space. Book this team well in advance to avoid stress as you approach the moving date.
Group Your Items
Help your movers to help you by pre-sorting all your items. Ideally, you should know where every box and piece of furniture needs to end up in the new space. You can keep these things together by labelling them. One of the easiest ways to do this is by using brightly coloured stickers, but clear and easy-to-read labels will serve the same purpose. This will allow the movers to group and stack your items in whatever way is convenient without losing track of which things must end up together at the new location. It also means you don't need anybody on the other end directing boxes; all that hard work is already taken care of at the source. And of course, this will also help when you come to reassemble your space too.
Standard Boxes
Especially if you're trying to be economical, it can be tempting to use whatever containers you have on hand to move your items. It's not the end of the world if you need to do this — but if you're able to, using boxes of about the same size will give your removalists a much easier time at stacking your items in the moving van. Just be sure to distribute heavier items, such as large collections of files or papers, between boxes. Where they can't be separated, you can mark particularly heavy boxes to warn the team.
In essence, the smoothest moving days begin weeks before the first time anything is physically moved. If you can get on board with this early, you'll be setting both yourself and your team up for an efficient and exciting move. Good luck!
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