Office Removals in Prestwich
Covering Prestwich, Whitefield, Sedgley Park, Simister, Besses o’ th’ Barn and Heaton Park.
The simplest thing you can do for an office move is give everybody a bag.
One bag each, packed the day before
Ask every person to take their own things home the night before, in something they carry themselves.
It sounds almost too small to mention. It is reliably the difference between a move where nothing goes missing and one where somebody spends a fortnight looking for a charger.
What should be in it: laptop, phone, tablet and the chargers for all three. Anything with a password on it. Keys and passes. Notebooks and current paperwork. Medication. Whatever is in the drawer that would be genuinely annoying to lose.
Why it works so well: those items are small, valuable and completely indistinguishable once they are inside a box with nineteen other sets of things. They are also the exact things somebody needs first thing on Monday, which is precisely when nobody can find them.
Everything else, the monitor, the desk, the drawers, the plant, is our part.
Tell people what is happening, not just when
The second most useful thing, and it costs nothing.
Most people have never moved an office and quietly assume somebody will do their desk for them, or that they will get an afternoon to sort it out. Neither assumption survives contact with a moving day.
A short note a fortnight ahead solves it. What day. What to take home themselves. What to leave. Whether desks need emptying. Where to be on the morning and whether to come in at all.
One person should own that message, and it should be the same person we speak to. Moves that go slowly are almost never about the lifting. They are about twenty people each waiting to be told something.
The desk drawer nobody mentions
Worth saying out loud when you send that note.
Every office has a drawer with something personal in it. Sometimes several. People do not raise it because it is awkward, and then on the day they would rather nobody opened it.
Telling everyone plainly that drawers should be emptied by them, before the day, takes the awkwardness out of it entirely.
The exception is the person who will not be there. Somebody is always on leave, working elsewhere, or has left the business since the move was announced, and their desk is the one nobody feels able to empty. Decide in advance who is doing it and tell them, rather than leaving it as the last unclaimed job on a busy morning.
Questions people ask
Do our staff need to pack their own desks?
Tell us what state things will be in and it gets factored in either way. Personal items and devices are always better carried by the person they belong to.
Should everyone come in on the day?
Usually not everybody. A few people who know where things go is faster than a full office standing about.
What if somebody forgets their bag?
It is why the note goes out a fortnight ahead rather than the day before.
Get a price for your Prestwich office move
Tell us the size of the office, how many people, and the access at both ends.
Where we cover
- Prestwich
- Whitefield
- Sedgley Park
- Simister
- Besses o' th' Barn
- Heaton Park
Across the surrounding M25 and M45 areas. We are based at Swan Street in Manchester city centre, so Prestwich is a short run rather than a journey. Office relocation services further out are arranged too.
If anything about the job is unusual, tell us and we will say what can be arranged around it. The quickest route is the form.
Get a price
Tell us the size of the office, how many people, and the access at both ends.
RCM Removals
20 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JW
Telephone: 0161 768 2056
Email: info@removalscompanymanchester.co.uk