Changing out your office furniture, moving your business, or rearranging your workspace is often a disruptive task, particularly with major upgrades and renovations. And while proper planning and professional furniture installation services can help to minimize the disruption, the season might present an opportunity to reduce the disruption even more, allowing you to reap the benefits of refreshing new office furniture or an efficient new layout, with minimal impact on workflow.
Summer is the most common time to schedule extended vacations. The kids are out of school for the season, the weather is sunny and warm, the cottages are open, boats are in the water, and warm-weather sports are in full swing.
This presents a unique opportunity to coordinate your furniture installation schedule with your employees’ vacation schedule, conducting any work that might interrupt workflow at a time when there are fewer workers whose flow you would interrupt—not to mention fewer scheduled staff who are on-site without a workstation.
This varies from industry to industry, but many sectors see a significant slow-down during the summer months. This is again partly due to vacation season, as clients, purchasers, and customers also tend to disappear for a few weeks out of the summer. Though other factors such as buying trends in this fiscal quarter might also affect summertime volume.
If your industry slows down during the summer months, that means that any interruptions that you do experience will have less impact on your overall bottom-line, as your employees will be less busy, and therefore more capable of ‘picking up the slack’ caused by any workflow interruptions.
Of course, the best time of year to move will vary from business to business. If the seasonal fluctuations actually see your business pick up in the summer and slow in the winter, you may very well benefit from holding off until later, particularly when you’re short-handed due to vacations. We strongly recommend that you keep our suggestions in mind, but use your own knowledge of your industry to make final judgement on the best time to upgrade.
When that time does come, we invite you to get in touch. Our professional office furniture installation services will make sure that your new office is set up with as little disruption as possible, no matter what the time of year it is.