Moving Your Business While Keeping Up Productivity

Moving Your Business While Keeping Up Productivity

Whether you are moving your business across town or to the province, you can expect stress to be your constant companion throughout the moving process. 

As if working through a hectic moving checklist is not hard enough, you have to do it while remaining on top of inventories, employees, and your regular business operations to ensure that productivity remains at reasonable levels while you’re moving.

Keep reading for some valuable moving tips on how you can successfully relocate your business while also keeping employee engagement and productivity high!

How Moving a Business Differs From Other Moves

With a residential move, there are countless items on the checklist, including but not limited to:

• Organizing transfer of utilities
• Advising current landlord, if renting
• Transferring kids to new schools 
• Transferring your vehicle registration
• Cleaning
• Packing
• Hiring professional movers
• Donating old clothing, furniture, and miscellaneous items

With a commercial move, you won’t have to contend with transferring kids to new schools. However, everything else remains the same. You will have to transfer business utilities, clean, pack, donate, and sift through a few commercial moving companies before selecting one that can help you move with ease. 

Business moves differ in a few other critical areas, like employee considerations and transition periods.

If you’re moving provinces, you’ll need to think about your staffing situation. For example, will some members of your team be coming with you? Can they work remotely? If not, start the hiring process for new employees right away. 

Additionally, you have to be mindful of areas involving critical staff like sales, technical support, and customer service. Communication issues can be detrimental to revenue, client regard, and overall productivity, so you have to keep these areas fully covered even as you move. 

Also, keep in mind that you have to notify your commercial insurance company of your new business address. This should be done with expediency, as you may need to find a different broker if moving provinces.

Relocating a business is overall larger in scale. It will likewise involve moving expensive office equipment, furniture, and other confidential items that pose a significant risk to the business if lost or damaged. This is why it is important to select commercial moving companies that have extensive experience with relocating businesses.

Creating a Plan

When moving your business, it’s important to have a solid plan in place. If you have employees that will move with you, consider the impact this will have on them. Communication is essential to a healthy work environment; once you know you’ll be moving, get the team together right away. 

Keep your employees and clients updated regularly with scheduled emails and phone calls for high-priority clients. 

Plan the date of your move strategically. If working from home is an option, arrange for sales individuals and the customer service team to set up camp in their home office until your new office space is up and running.

The best time for a business to move is on the weekend or after-hours. Weekend or after-hours moves minimize client impact and allow your team to set up equipment and perform tests to ensure all is well before the week begins.

Taking Inventory

It’s easy for items to become lost in the shuffle of moving. However, business owners can mitigate this risk by preparing a detailed inventory before moving day. Careful packing and using inventory management software programs will set you up for a successful move. 

If you can’t take all your business essentials at once, you have an option to store some of them first. Many commercial moving companies will have secure storage options or can provide referrals to trusted connections.

Are You Moving Your Business Soon? Call Macho Movers Today!

The macho team at Macho Movers is well-versed in both commercial and residential moves. We know that moving a business has different implications than a residential move would, and our experienced, Guelph-based team is up for the challenging task.

To learn more about our services or to plan your looming move with us, you may reach us at (519) 830-4974 or fill out our convenient contact form so that we can discuss your best options with you.