Office Furniture Installation Blog

As you ramp up towards your office relocation, you’re likely focusing on schedules, logistics, communications, and other key parts of your overall plan.

However, as busy as things can get, a major factor that will determine whether your office relocation is smooth and successful – instead of stressful and inefficient – is how prepared your team is when moving day arrives.

To that end, here are 7 practical and proven office relocation packing tips to keep in mind:

Identify files and other paperwork that should either be shredded, or sent for secure off-site storage/digital archiving. After all, why invest money and time to move boxes and filing cabinets full of documents that you don’t need to keep on-site at your new location?

For full transparency, we should start off by saying this: we don’t recommend that you take the “do-it-yourself” approach when it comes to your office move, because the risks FAR outweigh the potential rewards -- which are often unrealized in whole or part.

You may have already decided – or will soon come to the conclusion – that hiring a professional moving company is the safest, smartest and simplest way to ensure that your office move is successful. Or to put things a bit differently but perhaps more memorably: you know that hiring professionals will keep your office move from blowing up and turning into a confusing, chaotic and costly nightmare. 

When preparing for an office relocation, “disaster planning” probably isn’t top-of-mind. After all, we’re talking about a business move – not data recovery.

As you prepare for an office move in the next few weeks or months, you may be unsure of whether you should handle furniture removal yourself (i.e. the DIY route), hire non-professionals, or work with a professional furniture removal company.

It’s said that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”, and unfortunately, the web can sometimes seem like a vast wasteland of well-intentioned, but categorically awful advice on anything from how to run a business, how to change the oil in your car, and indeed: how to get furniture delivered on-time and on-budget. 

As you may already know, office furniture disassembly and reassembly (respectively) are critically important phases in an overall office relocation plan.

Carefully planning office furniture installation is a critical piece of an overall business relocation strategy – one that many businesses overlook, because they are so preoccupied with other important matters such as logistics, minimizing downtime, deciding what furniture to decommission, and so on.

Let’s start with this: we know that you want to keep your office furniture safe during your office relocation. Yet each day, thousands of businesses across the country experience just the opposite: their valuable furniture is damaged, lost, stolen, or even extorted (we’ll explain this one) during a move. 

It goes without saying that you have every intention of being involved in planning your professional office move. After all, it’s a major undertaking.