Tips on Office Moving

The task of corporate relocation is overwhelming, more than residential relocation. Here are some tips to make your office moving a smoother activity.

• Be as time-efficient and as cost-efficient as possible. Moving an office means loss of valuable working hours. Minimize it by being efficient at every front.
• If you would hire corporate relocation services, do it as early as possible. Professional movers are, any way, essential for moving large offices if a company wants to save valuable hours of its employees. Its good to hire them before at least 5-6 weeks ahead of moving date so that they may plan well for the move.
• Planning is the mantra when you talk of effective performance. Plan out everything, create a floor plan. map out furniture and equipment placement scheme, decide about where the employees will be stationed at the new office and the like. A little more hard work here will save you a considerable amount of time, money and headaches in the long run.
• Inform everyone- employees, landlords, and movers, about every detail of the relocation process. Tell the hired office mover about where each piece of furniture needs to be placed.
• Ensure that you depute at least one person to be in contact with the movers and direct them according to the company needs. This person should be well versed about the requirements and must have approval about the new office layout. Changing the layout of the office later is not viable and not at all cost efficient.
• Ensure that each piece that needs to be moved carries color-coded packing labels. These labels should be placed prominently on the packed office goods so that movers know exactly where they have to be moved.
• Dispose of as much garbage as possible. If yours is a large company, you might need to have permission from responsible authorities about disposing off waste. Initiate the process early so that it completes before packing starts.
• Make sure that all the facilities at the new office are installed before moving. This will save wastage of time and work could be started as soon as employees move to the new office. Check Internet connection, working phones and fax, restrooms etc.
• Change your company stationery and business cards well in time. Place the new address and phone number, and circulate the information everywhere through every means. Mail them to your employees and clients. You would definitely not like to lose any of your customers just because you have changed your office address!
• For rented items, clarify whether you need to contact your supplier. There may be contractual obligations requiring the rented equipment be moved only by the owner company.
• Book the services of freight elevators, if any- both in old and new building. This ensures a rapid move.

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Office Relocation- Need of Expert handling

Corporate offices sometimes need to be shifted to different locations with all their material and human resources. Office relocation is an operation that is carried out on a very large scale. It requires expertise as it is not just about moving an employee with his/her belongings only. It is about shifting the whole office with its furniture, files, documents, electronic items etc. The task of office relocation is carried out by relocation specialists in a very professional manner. They have to coordinate among the architecture, mechanical and even plumbing details other than functional allocations of floor areas. To know how and what is done by these specialists, read Office Relocation

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Employee Relocation- Role of Relocation Management Companies

Employee relocation has become an indispensable part of corporate world. The executives are sent to other geographical locations – within the same country or overseas – due to many reasons. If an organization wants to expand its operations in an hitherto unexplored area, it will obviously want to send an executive with known capabilities who can fulfill the organization's requirement in the new place. Sometimes it is just to fill up the skill deficiency at other offices of an organization. It is not that only the organization benefits from employee relocation. The employee also gets the opportunity to expand his business knowledge by working in new environments as also the chance of career development. However, the whole process of employee relocation is stressful. The relocation management companies, come here into the scene to make the whole process smooth and less stressed.

To know about the employee relocation process adopted by the moving companies according to the employment relocation policies, read Employee Relocation

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Corporate Relocation- How to Find Resources for Employee Relocation?

Distances matter no longer. Corporates are going places and writing new laws of success. In this process, however, they have to move their resources- including their employees- from one location to another. As such, corporate relocations need a good amount of assistance in the form of information on various acts and regulations and assistance from professional relocation organizations as well as companies. So, how can they find their needed resources?

There are many corporate relocation organizations that include moving companies, relocation associations and councils that can be of great help for employee relocation. Internet has really made most of our works easier. One can research and get limitless numbers of companies listed on online movers and packers directory.

Other than these directories, there are other options too- in the form of employee relocation associations- who provide targeted information about employee relocation packages. With the help of this information, the corporates can find out and compare various relocation packages. This way, they get the best deal available in the market. There are many such organizations that list relocation service providers in a comprehensive manner. Some of the best organizations include the Worldwide ERC, the EuRA, and the ARP.

The members (relocation service providers) of these associations not only move household goods and search accommodation for the employees and their family, they also search schools for their kids and provide other value oriented services like area orientation, cross cultural orientation, tenanacy management, visa and immigration services, finding jobs for the trailing spouse etc. However, the corporates availing the services of relocation companies found through such organizations must check their track record and should also ask for references.

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