Move office. Keep working.
An office move is won or lost weeks before moving day, and the winning move is always the same: order the internet connection first, because it is the longest lead item in the entire project. This page walks you through how we run the IT side of a move so your team packs up on Friday and signs in on Monday, in the new place, as if nothing happened.
Six phases, one quiet Monday.
The mapTell us early
Ideally 6 to 8 weeks outNo chargeThe moment a new office is likely, even before the lease is signed, tell us. We can check what internet is available at the new address before you commit, which has saved more than one business from signing a lease on a building with a connectivity problem.
- The address, the target move date, and the floor plan if one exists
- Who else is involved: fit-out company, movers, landlord
Fibre to a new address can take weeks, and a building that needs cabling work can take longer. Every other part of the move can be compressed; this one cannot. So the connection is ordered the moment the lease is certain, and the rest of the plan builds around its delivery date. The full detail lives in the internet connection guide.
Site survey
At the new officeWe walk the new site with the floor plan: where people sit, where the comms cabinet lives, what cabling exists and what the fit-out needs to add, and how wifi will cover the space. Cabling requirements go to the fit-out company early, because cores drilled after the carpet goes down cost triple.
- Cabling and power: what exists, what the fit-out must add, where
- Wifi coverage planned for the actual layout
- The comms cabinet: location, power, ventilation, security
Plan & scoping: the plan and the price
Price is fixed hereThe move plan and its fixed price, in writing: what moves, what gets replaced instead of moved, the network build at the new site, and the hour-by-hour plan for the move weekend itself. A move is also the natural moment to retire tired kit rather than pay to relocate it, so the scope shows both options where they exist.
- The new-site network build, itemised
- Move versus replace, device by device, with costs
- The move weekend, hour by hour, with a rollback position
- Who does what: us, the movers, the fit-out, you
- The go decision on the plan and price
- The replace-or-move calls where we have flagged a choice
Build the new site
Before moving dayWhile your team keeps working in the old office, the new one comes alive: connection live, network and wifi installed and tested, meeting rooms working, printers configured. Because your files, email and apps live in the cloud, the heavy lifting is proving the new site, not trucking servers.
- Internet live and tested at the new site ahead of the move
- Network, wifi and meeting rooms built and proven
- Anything moving physically is labelled and given a destination desk
The move weekend
Usually Friday to SundayMachines are packed Friday, set up at the new desks, and every seat is tested before Monday: sign-in, wifi, printing, phones, meeting rooms. Whatever surprises the weekend produces, and moves always produce one, get fixed while the office is still empty.
- Access to both sites across the weekend, and a contact we can reach
- Desks allocated before Friday, so every machine has a destination
The first week
On site with youWe are in the building Monday morning as your team arrives, walking the floor rather than waiting for tickets. The small stuff, a monitor cable here, a printer mapping there, gets fixed at the desk. Then the old site is closed out properly: services cancelled, kit retired securely, nothing left billing you for an office you no longer have.
- Floor-walking support on day one, not just a phone number
- Old-site services cancelled on the right dates
- Retired kit securely wiped and recycled
What you can hold us to.
Both ways- A connectivity check on the new address before you are locked in
- The new site built and proven before moving day
- Every seat tested before Monday morning
- Us in the building on day one, and the old site closed out cleanly
- The earliest possible warning, ideally before the lease is signed
- A desk plan before the weekend, and access across it
- One decision-maker for the replace-or-move calls
Moving?
Tell us today.
Even if the lease is not signed. Checking connectivity at a new address costs nothing and can save the whole project.
