The home of Greg Tankersley and Mary Robin Jurkiewicz originally published in Veranda magazine, September/October 2005.
My family and I are in the process of selling and moving out of the 1914 Beaux Arts estate we've called home for the past eleven years. The reasons are twofold: planning for the future and a good dose of architectural ADD (given our history, our attention span is apparently a decade).
Box-Less Gondola–File Room Conversion
More & more surveys and study results about how human beings waste time or use it ineffectively (it’s not always our fault, though!):
Email statistics and projections indicate that, by 2011, the average number of corporate emails sent and received per person each day will be 228 (up from 142 in 2007). The corresponding percent of work spent managing email for the average corporate email user will rise from 17% in 2003 to a projected 41% this year. (2007 study conducted by technology market research firm Radicati Group)
In 2009, about 81% of all email traffic is expected to be spam. Projections indicate that the typical 1000-user organization can spend as much as $1.8 million per year to manage spam (2009 study by the Radicati Group)
The average office has 19 copies of each document. (From an article in USA Today)
The average retrieval/re-filing time for a paper document: 10 minutes. However, about 3% of documents are lost or misfiled, leading to a recovery rate of $120 per document. (Study by the Gartner Group, Coopers & Lybrand, Ernst & Young)
The average executive wastes 150 hours each year looking for misplaced documents. (2003 study by Office World News)
Misplacing items isn’t confined to the office: Americans as a whole waste more than 9 million hours each day looking for lost/misplaced items. (Study by the American Demographic Society)
The average manager is interrupted every 8 minutes. As for the non-average, 50% are interrupted 8-9 times per hour; 22%,, 10-11 times; 11%, 6-7 times; 5%, 1-3 times; and 2% more than 12 times per hour! (Study conducted by Priority Management Systems)
The average amount of time executives spend in (mostly needless) meetings each week: 7.8 hours. (Survey by Accountemps)
The desk of the average white-collar worker holds 36 hours of uncompleted work. That desk’s occupant spends 3 hours per week sorting piles to find and organize the project/s being worked upon. (From The Overload Syndrome, by Richard Swenson)
Studies show that a certain percentage of executives pick up a single piece of paper on their desk from 30 to 40 times before deciding to take action upon it. (From Seize the Day, by Michael Woolery)
About 25% of workers save things in piles instead of files. (Paper presented by Global Market Research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres)
A good Records Management company or RIM Professional can help with workflows and suggest inefficiencies that protect information assets and avoid liability. The new hybrid office mover/RIMpro’s can use a move instance to kill several of the issues in one process.
AlwaysLeading.com is the corporate site of a company that helps other companies and individuals in transition. Whether it is a straight forward office relocation, a hospital with a records center, lab equipment and more or a small apartment move. Removing the frustration, stress and downtime associated with a relocation is the goal, see alwaysleading.com. Offering pragmatic solutions to common issues is the answer. For a secure chain of custody relocation, boxless moving using office gondolas the folks at Admiral Movers are constantly raising the bar by simplifying the relocation process? Relocating protected information, quickly and securely is what the folks at Admiral Movers do. Expediting the move process is the hallmark of a boxless move, eliminating traditional packing and unpacking allows customers to remain productive right up to move time is a standard. The secure systems innovations detailed at AlwaysLeading.com ensure you and your company are compliant. Because of the Gondolas, electronics carts, AirGlide computer carts and other systems employed at Admiral Movers relocation are accomplished in a fraction of the time a normal move takes. Money is saved, effort is reduced and organization is fueled. The boxless gondolas allows files, manuals, binders, charts, desk contents and records to be moved in order and accessible throughout the entire process. Your employees and customers will love you and the boss will love the money you save. Since you will avoid the “moving hangover” associated with a box or plastic crate move your company returns to revenue generating activities immediately. Most importantly employing an expert in secure chain of custody relocation your risk management folks, your board, stockholders and managers can rest easy knowing that you are protected. Again the boss will love you, and because of the reduced stress, and or utilizing off-site storage reduced hassle you will thank yourself.
Many businesses in this day and age need to reduce real estate footprints to reduce costs. Shredding unneeded office paper, and or relocating files off-site can help and Admiral Records Management. The more paper and furniture volume that can be shed reduces the overall cost of the relocation, improving business processes and enables a business to find more austere quarters. Recycling used furnishing, metal or paper is good for the environment and earn you green credits.
Asset management, inventory control, logistics, storage and aid in redeploying lessor moving recycling, storing, redeploying or retiring office furnishings maybe what is needed. To see the innovative approaches and ever evolving relocation processes go to AlwaysLeading.com.
Commercial Relocation Network CRN Admiral Movers Al
Commercial Relocation Network CRN affiliate Admiral Movers in Montgomery Alabama
Industrial Movers In Alabama Admiral Movers
Montgomery’s Best Office Mover
Feel free to call us at 334-262-6666, we are here to help
Commercial Relocation Network (CRN) Welcomes New Member
Seattle, WA — The Commercial Relocation Network (CRN), a North American organization which is composed of more than 50 top-tier commercial moving and storage companies, is pleased to welcome Scott McNelley of Admiral Movers as a new member.
Governed by the CRN executive steering committee, a strict selection process is followed prior to a new member being accepted into the network. All members of CRN must be able to provide specialized commercial relocation services, programs, equipment and solutions that are competitive within the industry. Members must also participate in various activities throughout the year to ensure ongoing professional development and industry leadership.
Chairman Steve Komorous of the King Companies added, “Being invited to join CRN is recognition of the new member’s abilities and performance. Scott and Admiral Movers have demonstrated they are of the caliber needed to be a part of CRN and we are glad to welcome them into the group.”
About Scott McNelley and Admiral Movers
Scott McNelley started Admiral Movers 23 years ago in Montgomery, AL, as an office moving company and has led it through several phases of growth. Today Admiral is an agent for Mayflower Transit and performs local, long distance, and international residential moves, but still finds its specialty in office and industrial relocation. Admiral Movers is an award-winning industry leader and is home to several service-marked, revolutionary techniques that have changed the way offices are relocated. In Alabama Admiral Movers is synonymous with “Top Notch Office Mover”. AirGlide Computer Moving and the Office Gondola System work in concert to transform office relocation with a box-less moving solution. Moving hospitals, plants and offices easily and painlessly with this method is one of the many accomplishments that have won Admiral Movers its outstanding reputation. As an outgrowth of file transfers, Scott diversified his business in 2007 when he launched Admiral Records Management.
About CRN
Founded in 2004, the Commercial Relocation Network is a membership organization made up of over 50 of the largest office and industrial relocation companies in the country. The main objective of CRN is for providing “Best-in-class” resources for its members and customers looking for a reliable, professional commercial mover in their region.
CRN members meet regularly and are encouraged to exchange ideas, education, training, and develop business partners, in other geographical locations, that provide a consistent level of professional service. By selecting a member of the network to assist with a move, customers
are guaranteed that only experienced professional commercial movers will be handling their project.
Learn more about or contact CRN by visiting: http://www.officemovingcrn.com
For more on Admiral Movers see http://www.admiralmovers.com or http://www.AlwaysLeading.com
CRN Media Contact Elizabeth Domin, news@clancymoving.com (800) 836-0331 or Scott McNelley at 877-816-3454 or info@admiralmovers.com
or call 334-262-6666
I get folks from time to time who come up to me with a story about a move they had. It is not normally a very happy memory, they wish that it had happened to someone else. Many times they say have you ever heard of this fellow? Or have you heard of this company? I generally know what is coming, damage, inflated bills, theft, and now NO returned phone calls. One time I even got ” I paid ABC mover a 500.00 deposit and he never showed and now I can not get him to call me back. Heck we had a mover in town that was putting items in a mini storage, then not paying the bill and the goods get auctioned. Can you imagine loosing everything you have, and you guessed it no insurance. Remember the old adage if it seems to good to be true…..
I normally say what on earth made you hire this company, generally the answer is well they were really inexpensive. There are a couple of “movers” in our town that are always the low bid, I mean like 30% to half the normal pricing. Trust me when I say that the owners of these “outfits” are the best judge of “exactly” what their service is worth. You do not want these folks near your homes, or your furnishings. A quality mover will rarely be the cheapest mover.
Some red flags
So I did a short video in hopes this will protect someone from becoming a victim of the moving nightmare.
Plastic Crates for Office Moves
Plastic Crates = bad, slow office move.Another problem with the crate offering is that they are of a size that no office mover, industrial engineer, risk manager should ever let an employee handle. The maximum weight movers and employees should handle is 60 lbs (filled with books, files and charts) which means the container should be no bigger than 1.2 cubic feet. the problem, a plastic crate is 2.7 cubic feet and weighs eight to nine pounds empty and when loaded will be close to 100 lbs. How on earth are your assistants, clerks, employees going to load and stack these behemoths? Then when comes to unpacking them at the new building your going to need the help of the mover, more expense. We may want to rename these plastic (boxes) crates “workman’s comp boxes”. Ask any mover who even occasionally does office moves if he or she would allow a customer to pack a 2.7 or 3.0 cubic foot box? Our friends at CityMove.ca have got it right in their blog entitled Plastic Moving Boxes In Vancouver? Just Say No!
Gondolas appear just before a move, or the same day as move. Why, because transferring items to gondolas takes just a few minutes per office, allows access right up until the time they are shrink-wrapped for transfer. Best of all you can access all items the moment they are unloaded at the new office. Unloading by the way is accomplished in a fraction of the time as a traditional move, requires fewer folks which means lower costs. We have even had a hospital to need access to files during a move which we accomplished because all files stayed completely in order during the entire process. Gondolas are super mobile, because of the easy roller caster system, plus the wheels are 100% non skid and non marking.
Plastic crates cause the very same issues boxes do, as soon as you load them you are shut down. Boxes or plastic crates move much more slowly than gondolas. When you arrive at your destination and all the plastic boxes or plastic crates are piled everywhere. The complaint I hear from clients of box or crate moves is that normally the crate boxes are not in order. They fall over in the truck, or they are delivered to the wrong rooms. Either way you get hassle, frustration, lots of downtime which I refer to as the “moving hangover”. Downtime cost money, and prevents the generation of revenue. So this plastic crate or plastic box method you were sold as a solution just made this move super expensive not to mention stressful.
The more I look around I realize that the folks that are pushing the plastic crate notion for and office move is not so much real office movers but the crates makers, sellers and rental companies. They want or need more customers for their plastic crates, which were initially created for retail stores to carry much lighter items than books, files and manuals. This is would be like if you were making cars and the off-road SUV craze came along so you began telling folks your cars were off-road ready because you added different tires.
If a mover wants to get into office moving they should make the full commitment to have the proper equipment, not fake it. Office moving is not something you can just decide to do and do well. It takes years of training, improving it will also take full commitment to buy or build the correct equipment. I realize most household movers have had the their market dry up on them, but they do their customers no favor by introducing a poorly conceived notion. Heck we find that most of these movers are trying to use a household cube sheets to take and inventory and figure up an estimate. This will lead to underestimating badly the time the move will take, the manpower required and the cost of the relocation. Who pays for this, the customer when on Monday instead of returning to work you are trying to finish a move. When the move runs long and the movers get tired damage occurs and whatever plan you had to get things to their destination is sacrificed for just getting the truck unloaded. True office moving professionals such as Admiral Movers in Montgomery AL can help simplify the move process by avoiding packing & unpacking.
Call 334-262-6666 and we will help you with a hassle free move.
