Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Office Relocation

It might happen with you that office which you are running can suffer from bad location. It might really happen that you come across the situation that your office is not located in the right area. The question arises what you can really do about it. The answer is quiet simple that you will have to relocate it but its implementation is not so easy. You will definitely have to do something great if you want to manage this thing. You will definitely find out that the place where your company is situated could have been a great place few years ago but now you need to change your position. Hence you really need to think deeply as far as office relocation is concerned.

Once you decide that it is the time to relocate then you should really find out the reasons for relocation four or five months before. If the reason is simple and that is your business is not running smoothly then you can always have some other alternative too? You can check out your employees and find out what is going wrong apart from the location of the office. If the reason is to reduce expenditure then you should really look for some other alternatives because you can have many reasons. If you are looking to enlarge your office then you should really look for some place which is much bigger than the present one.

Once you decide that you will have to relocate then you should really decide that what you really want now. You should contact professional packers and movers. You should check out for internet, telephone and all the communication connections. You should also place orders for computers, notebooks, furniture, desk, chairs and all the other required things.

When you will have only few months remaining not more than one to two months then this is the time when you will have to make sure that you let every employee know about it. You should also assign specific task to each and every employee. Change of addresses and telephone numbers should be properly communicated to all the vendors. It should de made sure that all the useless items are properly disposed. You should also make sure that these details are properly updated in the office website. All the furniture, equipments and communication facility should be installed properly. New stationeries should be ordered.

The last one week can turn out to be the most hectic period. All the desks should be emptied into labeled bags. You should make sure that all the electronic equipments are properly uninstalled and you should also make sure that all the meetings are shifted to some other date.
In this way you will end up shifting your office in much better way. You will find nothing out of order if you will follow the above steps. And you will definitely find your new office in much better position than your previous office. But you have to make sure that you are following the above steps or not.

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