Ensure Safe Office Relocation to Insure Your Career

Office relocation is equally important like your home relocation as it determines the growth of your professional life. Packing the furniture, equipments and moving to a new office space can be worrying. However, if you know the tricks of shifting your corporate building, the consignment becomes trouble free. An Office Moving Checklist can help you actually to ensure a hassle free moving. You need to plan ahead and stay organized. There are many Packers and Movers Company that provide reliable corporate relocation services. To help you ensure a safe office relocation let us take a look at the mentioned checklist.

Planning and Preparation

First of all inform all your employees, board members, investors about the shifting and the new address. You can assign several employees to supervise the procedure of moving. Allocate responsibilities to each team member like:

• System Coordinator: This person will be responsible for disconnecting all system connections, like computers, phones, televisions and setting up these devices in the new office.
• Client Liaison Manager: He will be responsible for notifying all customers about the relocation and changing the address of the new company along with the postal address.
• Business Marketing Manager: Give the responsibility to your marketing manager to communicate the move to customers. Update the website with new office address and send communications as needed.

Make a Budget

Office relocation becomes very expensive if you do not plan it beforehand. Make a budget for the major requirement of the office. The budget will include cost of interior design service, set up cost, insurance cost, overhead cost, printing cost, and cost of furniture.

Back up the Computers

Make sure to keep back up of all computers so that you do not miss the data. It is always better to be safe than sorry.

Inspection of Furniture

Check the furniture and devices at the office before two or three months. Discard those that are damaged or out of order. If you need more furniture for the new office, then make a mark and prepare a list of it.

Coordinate the Moving

Once you fixed the moving date, inform the corporate relocation service company before a week. Research on the net about the reliable and best-moving company carefully and choose the reputed one.

Packing

Packing should be started before a week of the relocation date. Organize the boxes and label them at the end of packing. If you are getting a professional moving company to pack the goods, then also supervise them and prepare a checklist so that you do not miss any item.

Visit the New Office Earlier and Confirm

Inspect the new office prior two weeks and note down of anything that needs to get fixed and notify the property owner. Before the relocating day, assure that everything has been fixed, and the new office is ready to move.

Check the Loading and Unloading

Make sure that the loading and unloading happen smoothly. Once the goods have been shifted to the new place verify that nothing has been damaged during the move. However, if you face any inconvenience then inform the corporate relocation service company immediately.

Check the New Office

Supervise the new building whether it is safe for people to enter and if it painted well. Add some signage with directions for each team to find their way around. Check all the facilities, such as toilets, power, fridges, etc. are working.

Confirm the Parking Facility

Confirm that there will be available parking place before shifting to the place. Before the shifting takes place check the map of the new premises, so the employee and management understand how to enter the office and where to park

Do not forget to schedule the workload prior to the shifting and meet the deadlines to accommodate the interruption of the move to avoid further stress.

Thus, you can shift your office with the help of your team. Just make sure to prepare a checklist and mark the mentioned points. These are enough to guide you throughout the relocation process and enable you to heave a sigh of relief of successful moving.

Abhi is the founder leading packers and movers company based in Pune. He has over 7 years experience in moving industry