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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Sounds familiar.
About halfway through my tenure at the bank I mentioned previously, we moved. They'd gotten a good deal on space in a building on the west side, and consolidated a bunch of separate offices, mine among them.
For several weeks before the actual move occurred, preparations took place, including disposing of stuff they didn't want to move. They had the wheeled canvas hampers used by the US Postal Service for packages, and were tossing out a couple of hamper loads a day of waste paper to be recycled. Five year old G/L printouts people were keeping, "just in case..."
It's astonishing what you realize you can live without when you are confronted with moving it, and the effort convinced me large organizations ought to move every 5 years or so, simple to force people to throw things out.
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Dennis
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When we moved offices about 4 years ago, we announced that the new space wouldn't have a file room. A pretty big step for an insurance company. That was just the push we needed to get all of the business units to wrap up their "paperless office" projects. So there was a mad rush for 18 months, and we cranked out a lot of code to integrate electronic documents into our core policy/claims system before the move.