When you are trying to turn over a profitable business, the last thing you want to be dealing with is the extra time and expensive labour of an office move. However, as business expands or changes shape, or leases expire and landlords put the rent up, it is something you will inevitably have to face […more]
If your business is taking off, then that’s great news that ought to be congratulated, but the celebrations can be somewhat tamed down by increased responsibility and demands. One of these unsolvable problems is business location – being visible and attractive to clients of course means putting yourself in the thick of where it is […more]
Self storage, as we have seen, is quite a versatile market and there are many alternative ways to use the storage space other than as a drop off point for excess items. Knowing that customers are turning to self storage to run their business, there is a wave of facilities that can offer dedicated office […more]
Document retention is a tricky subject on which people have all sorts of views. Some find the habit of continually maintaining a document archive in painstaking order is a bind, others take to it like a duck to water. Some will staunchly keep only what they need to under statute, others will be more cautious about […more]
Self storage is slowly being recognised and utilised as a place to do business, far beyond the typical remit of storing items and documents. There have been many success stories in the press of individuals using self storage as stock rooms for online ordering, to more ambitious projects such as gymnasiums, and even being a […more]
We wrote not too long ago about archiving business documents and what needs to be considered to use self storage as an effective archiving process. We found it was the ideal solution to get boxes of paper out of the office and into an organised filing system. With a bit of thoughtful organisation and judicious […more]
Moving business location can be daunting and full of all sorts of logistical complications. It may not just be a simple move from A to B, it can also be the end of one era and the start of another – the new office may have double floor space across a larger building for expanding […more]
Many office based workers show a little envy for those whose working arrangements allow them to be based at home. The drudgery of cramming yourself onto the public transport system or sitting in traffic jams amongst the school traffic, only to try to do your job amongst the distractions of others when you get there…however […more]
UK was relatively late on the scene when it came to realising the benefits of self storage, quite a surprise given its densely populated cities, growing population and inflated property prices. As we saw in a previous article about the growth of the industry, use of self storage nearby has only been an option in […more]
Many businesses are aware of the benefits of making the best use of the storage units near them for all sorts of purposes, but one of the most common over long periods of time is for document archiving. This saves offices a lot of time and money in reorganising their working space or looking for […more]