Office move
We’ve been installed in our lovely new offices in the heart of swanky Svanemøllen for two months now and the debates about the office layout are continuing at a furious pace!
I’m optimistically viewing the process as ‘organic’. By which I mean that we’ll eventually arrive at a consensus if only because people will lose the energy to object to each other’s ideas!
Realistically, though, I know the girls will have the final say. I’m just trying to put up a fight for as long as I can!
It would be interesting to hear your stories of office moves. What tips can you pass on that might make things a little easier for companies about to relocate?
My suggestion? Outsource the job to a good interior designer!
June 6th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
This may not be very popular in this choice-obsessed world, but I think the best way to make an office move smooth is to give one person responsibility for design and furniture plans and keep everyone else out of it.
As the brothers Heath point out in their excellent book Made to Stick, people often suffer a kind of paralysis when given too much choice. The result is that they fail to make any decision at all. This paralysis is multiplied when a group has to decide something together.
So, I’m with you – hire an interior designer and just do whatever they say!