Besides moving house, one of the biggest and most disruptive moves people can make is moving office without changing jobs, taking their entire working lives with them to a new location to provide a net gain in productivity.
Using the right office removals service will reduce disruption by ensuring that the physical movement of resources from one office to another is done in the most efficient way possible, and this can be enough to make the choice to move office easier.
Ultimately, the die is cast on an office move long before a removal van appears, and there are often telltale signs that an office move is necessary if not inevitable.
People Constantly Working In Meeting Rooms
Meeting rooms, by design, need to generally be empty outside of scheduled appointments because there needs to be a degree of flexibility in where important business contacts and stakeholders can meet to discuss problems.
In some cases, meeting rooms can double up as quiet spaces or an overspill space for hotdesking employees, but this is not something that should be a regular occurrence.
If people are working in meeting rooms every day, it means there is a problem with the main office either in terms of layout or in terms of space.
Generally, no more than 60 per cent of the meeting rooms should be booked at any one time, otherwise, there is a greater risk of scheduling conflicts.
Full Breakout Rooms
The best way to tell if you have a space problem in your office is by looking at how your break room is used. If it is constantly full during tea breaks or throughout the bulk of lunchtime, that is often an early warning that space is an issue, even if it appears like the rest of the office is fine.
Sometimes this manifests in different ways, such as people going out of the office to take their lunch or eating at their desks, both of which can affect productivity in different ways.
High Turnover
Employees quit for many different reasons, but the office space itself can often be a metaphor for a lot of the issues with the business itself.
If your company has no hybrid work policy or severely restricts it to force people into the office but at the same time does not have enough space to cater for all of the staff it expects to be working, that can cause sufficient resentment for people to start quitting in higher-than-normal numbers.
Desks In Terrible Places
Sometimes, you can technically have enough space in terms of workstations but have a lot of people working in conditions that could politely be described as unsuitable.
Areas that lack natural light, in cramped or uncomfortable positions can add to turnover issues as people can feel undervalued if they are working in places and positions that are not commensurate with high morale and productivity.
Scramble For Resources
Whilst the biggest warning behaviour from employees is either quitting or threatening to quit, there is a connection between limited workspaces and territorial behaviour, where employees feel that they need to assert a degree of ownership and control even with workplaces that have a culture of hotdesking.
