Desk moves come down to labels. Every desk's screens, docks and cables are disconnected, labelled and packed, then rebuilt at the new desk so people can log in on the first morning. In October 2024 six of us decommissioned 150 desks in London that way. It's our own crew, working from Church Crookham, Fleet, Hampshire.
Most of the support tickets after an office move come from mixed-up cables, missing docks and unlabelled peripherals. So we treat the desk as the unit of work, and every one gets done the same way.
If the furniture is moving too, that's office furniture delivery and installation, and the whole job is office relocation.
We work to our own Cable Management Decommission SOP on every desk and every floor, so crews on a 150-desk job do it the same way as crews on a 32-desk job.
The nine-step procedure our crews use to disconnect, label and pack desk IT so it reconnects first time. Use it to brief your own team, or as the standard in a tender. Free PDF, no form.
The Cable Management Decommission SOP is a standard operating procedure for disconnecting, labelling and packing desk IT during an office move, floor change or IT refresh, so that every workstation can be reconnected correctly at the other end.
It's taking down the IT and cabling at a desk, moving it, and putting it back up at another desk, in the same building or a different one. Done properly, the person sits down and logs in.
Start with a list of who sits where in the new office. We turn that into a move matrix, then label and pack to it. Our office relocation checklist and its planner pack walk through the rest.
Labels, mostly. Each cable, dock and accessory is labelled to its desk and user, and the desk is photographed where the job needs it.
Then it's rebuilt to the matrix. Your IT team checks each one.
Yes, and most are. We've done 110 desks across London and Scotland at the same time, and a City office over a weekend with a crew of nine.
Yes. Our office relocation team does both, or you can book the desk moves on their own.
The move matrix or seating plan, the floor plans if you have them, and the dates. If we haven't seen the building, a short walk-through video is the quickest way.
It depends on the number of desks, the floors and lifts, and the time window. Our office move cost guide explains each. Send us the desk count and we'll quote.
Send us the desk count, the two sites and the dates.
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