Making A Smoother Move To A New Office

A lot of businesses are looking at the potential of having to downsize lately, whether it’s because they have had to cut their staff or because they’re looking at working with more remote individuals than before. As such, they’re making a move to a new office and finding all the challenges that can come with that. Here, we’re going to look at how you can manage that move without half of the stress that businesses usually face.

Get the team involved

Once you have chosen your new office, you have to take care of the steps of actually moving from one to the other. In this, your team can be much more help than you might think. It might not be part of their usual job description, but you can have them all help by, for instance, packing up their own desk and taking any personal effects home with them. You can also choose a responsible team member to act as the move manager.

Phase it in

If you’re looking to avoid any disruption to your core daily functions, then you might not want the day or two of downtime that comes with moving everything over at once. Rather, you can instead look at moving people and equipment over bit by bit. This might involve having people working in both the new and old office at the same time or relying on remote working to allow some individuals to work from home until their setup can be entirely moved to the new location.

Know what to do with all that stuff

Unless you choose an office with exactly as much floor and storage space as you currently have, it’s likely that you’re going to have a problem fitting all of your current assets into the new space. You can sell or recycle some stuff that you’re certain you’re not bringing over. However, personal and business storage can help you find a cost-effective place for a lot of your assets when you’re not certain what you’re doing with them. Figure out whether or not they have a place in the office before you sell them. Rashly getting rid of resources that you could use could prove to be a headache later.

Have someone handle the IT

Your office relies on more than just desks and people, it also relies on the technology that allows your team to do their work. For modern businesses, this technology can include more than PCs, but Cloud software and storage, internal networks, and so on. Make sure that you’re getting everything you need in the new office by working with managed IT services that can help you migrate everything over. If you set your new office up only to find your IT setup lacking, it can affect your productivity for a long time, so try to get your IT set up at the same time as everything else.

Making a move to a new office is going to be something of a challenge, no matter what. However, with the tips above, you can make sure that you’re able to do it in a way that minimizes disruption as best as possible.