subject: Tips For Staying Productive During Your Office Move [print this page] Moving your office or home is widely considered one of the single-most stressful life events. It is stressful considering the prospect of losing productivity and facing a non-negotiable deadline for the office move. How do you keep your business productive even when your office is in pieces?
Heres three tips to stay productive when there is Office Moving:
Plan Ahead
Plan in advance where the cubicles will get set up and where the ethernet connections will get wired through. Leave nothing to chance. Line up your proverbial ducks well in advance of the big day.
If your office operates during regular office hours of Monday to Friday 9-5, then plan the actual move over a weekend to minimize unproductive time during your office move. This gives you enough time to move, install and troubleshoot any issues related to the move. Same rule applies for businesses that work outside of the regular hours. Try to arrange the move for low activity days, time of the month, or the year. This will minimize the impact to your staff and customers.
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No matter how much work you put into planning, there can still be unaccounted for or unanticipated activities. These things tend to surface at the 11th hour. Here are some tips to make sure you are not left stranded:
. Be generous with time allotment for your office move
. Plan for additional manpower
. Hire an office moving company that has temporary storage and disposable service
. Create a contingency plan for critical activities
An office move is a great opportunity to renew and energize your staff and your business. It is a great opportunity to purge and upgrade. For example, replace old furniture or appliances that are on their last leg rather than lug them to your new office location. Most Toronto Moving Company, like The Office Mover, offer disposal services. As another example, if your office is using bulky CRT monitors, here is the perfect reason to either dispose or donate those clunkers to your favorite charity and buy flat-panel monitors.
Basically, you want to arrive at your new office location energized and in even better shape to do
business than you were when you left.
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