Creative Converting, a premium designer of party tableware and décor, called on RSI for move management and furniture coordination services. The move of 43 employees to their new 18,000 square-foot location began at noon on a Friday and concluded just two days later on a Sunday afternoon. A relocation like this required strategic pre-planning and a swift, efficient tear-down, move and rebuild.
Timing was critical, so RSI quickly took the company’s 19 existing cubes and coordinated a reconfigure into 12 larger cubes for the new building. Before the move, RSI helped to locate seven gently-used cubes with low panels for the design area and five additional used cubes for employees. RSI coordinated the move of all cubes, private office furniture and contents of each employee. Because Creative Converting has a large inventory of sample merchandise, RSI needed to relocate more than 80 display racks and pallets while keeping with the new facility’s elevator usage policy. This meant using the elevator only after 5:30 p.m. To adhere to the policy and meet the schedule challenge, movers began relocating pallets and display cases the Tuesday before the move, staging them in the dock area at the new location.
Weeks of planning culminated in a brisk and competent weekend relocation. Come Monday morning, it was business as usual at Creative Converting’s new home.
“The Relocation Strategies staff was an invaluable help in coordinating our office move. The RSI team evaluated our current space and then drew up layouts for each of the three new locations we were considering. Once we made our final location selection, they went to work tweaking the plans to meet the needs of every employee, down to the exact location of data and electrical connections to work with each person’s preferred layout. RSI helped us manage our budget by reusing 85% of our existing furniture, locating used and refurbished cubes, and even taking the time to shop with us at an office furniture dealer that they knew was closing its doors (and scoring a few great deals in the process). RSI bid out our move, kept us on schedule and within budget, and was always there to answer any questions. I would highly recommend RSI to anyone planning an office move!”
Sarah Millies, Director of Marketing
