You need to move offices. OK. Maybe your lease is running out. Maybe your landlord is getting greedy and on principle you're not going to pay more rent. Maybe your best customers are now, and for the foreseeable future, on the other side Sydney. Maybe you're expanding and you need additional space. Maybe you've become so efficient you need less space. Maybe you literally going up in the world and you need, and can afford, the prestige of offices with a view. Maybe you've aspired to an Office Relocation, maybe circumstances have thrust an Office Relocation upon you.

There are thousands of potential reasons why you might need to relocate Offices and why you might need the services of Office Removalists.

Here, as a service to humanity, or at least to the business world, is some free advice on how to make your Office Relocation as pain-free, stress-free and as cost-effective for you, your business and your staff. Here's also how to make the job of your Office Removalist easier for them, and cheaper for you because the more organized you are, the less time they waste making up for your lack of planning or foresight.

1) Take Stock – What is the total amount of stuff that has to move? Can you get rid of stuff? Can you sell, donate or gift some of your things? Quantify everything – size, weight, quantities.

2) Set a Date – Set a date and stick to it. This is the day you're moving the big stuff. There's  a lot of flexibility when moving small stuff, but the big stuff will usually all go on one day in one set of trucks.

3) Double-check Your Date – Make sure that your moving date doesn't coincide with a marathon run that your travel route doesn't cross a motorcade by some visiting Head of State or even a public holiday – it's been known to happen.

4) Check Your Parking and Access – Make sure that if there's underground parking involved that the trucks will be able to get through the entrance. Make sure that there aren't any road works that will suddenly raise the road height to a point where you can't get under a crucial bridge anymore.

5) Understand that your employees were hired to do their jobs, not to be removalists, so that if they're moving things and they get injured, you might be in for a Work Cover claim.

6) Get lots of boxes, packing materials, labels, felt-tipped markers, string and packing tape. Get about twice what you think you'll need because you'll need all of it.

7) Designate one very competent and organized "Change Manager" who's the main go to person for the move. Give them absolute authority over every aspect of the move. Either relieve them from their normal duties or pay them extra-time to handle their coordination duties because the closer you are to moving day the busier that they'll be and, believe it or not, depending on the complexity and size of the move, this is a full-time position, even if it's temporary. Give them a dedicated mobile phone for the duration.

8) Let your Change Manager designate one very competent deputy who is as informed as the Manager in case the manager gets, sick, has a family emergency or gets kidnapped by aliens.

9) Have a backup plan in case something unforeseen happens.

10) Find a Specialist Office Removalist in Sydney and get the Change Manager to plan with them from the very beginning.

11) Plan well in advance. You'll need all the time you have.

12) Set a realistic budget.

There's a lot more to Office Relocation, but those are the basics.