It seems link longer, but only two weeks ago my young company moved into our first permanent office space. We’d been using some shared office space on our old University campus for about the last year or so but we’ve quickly grown to a permanent staff of 6 and several contractors. The time had come to get our own space.
When we started our internet marketing business there was myself, my girlfriend and my business partner. We all worked out of my house so it was easy to communicate and collaborate with one another. As we began to attract more business so we needed additional help so we started to use contractors. For client meetings we would book one of the meeting rooms at our old University or even meet up in a local pub or restaurant.
It was when we needed to take on additional staff that we started to rent a couple of small offices from the University. This worked well for a while, although several clients experienced problems when trying to find us so we decided that we needed our own office.
Being a young firm we hadn’t yet accumulated too much ‘stuff’ to move into our new office. The most important items being our servers and computers, but we also had some office furniture that needed to be moved from both my house and the University. We employed a reputable London office moving firm to carry out the move for us and they had our desks, chairs and computers comfortably relocated before lunch time.
Having been in our new office space, with a dedicated meeting room and plenty of space for more staff (if they are needed) for just over two weeks we can’t believe the difference it has made to our working lives. Having a dedicated, spacious meeting room is great for not only client meetings but in house training sessions and impromptu meetups with colleagues. It has taken a while to get the place furnished and it’s still a bit of a barn with lots of unoccupied floor space. But is clean, airy, near to a main London tube station and close to a couple of great London pubs.
Our clients don’t get lost when trying to find us any more as our new office has our business name boldly displayed from our first floor window. Our internal communications is much improved as we are all working from the same location, rather than from our homes and the old offices we occupied in the University. And our new office is so comfortable, and spacious, that a couple of our part-time contractors would rather work from the office than from their homes.
Business moves can, I know, be an enormous headache with so many pitfalls and problems to overcome. I’m hoping that our new location will last our business for a good number of years and continue to provide us with the space we need to give our clients a great service.
My advice to anyone who has to think about moving office in London is to give yourself plenty of time, plan your move in complete detail and be certain to employ a professional London office moving firm who have a great reputation and lots of experience carrying out successful business removals.
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