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The right sanitisation methods and precautionary measures rooted in common sense can help fight the COVID-19 infection.

But during these difficult times, moving home is not the easiest of things to do, and during a global pandemic, it can become an ordeal for sure.

So, what’s to be done? Do people need to screen all their stuff through an ultraviolet tunnel, or maybe spray litres of sanitising solutions or disinfectants on their household goods to ward off the virus?

Well, probably not.

The correct sanitisation methods and the basic preventive measures are more than enough to avert the spread of the infection. Being one of the leading global removal companies, we at Writer Relocations are responsible enough to understand the severity of the COVID-19 situation and take the right steps to ensure that our customers’ goods are sanitised well and are safe during a move.

A lot has been said about the transmission of the virus. So by now, we know that it happens through close contact with an already infected person, mostly via respiratory droplets while coughing, breathing, sneezing or even speaking. And as we all are already aware, the virus tends to remain live or active for hours or even days at a stretch, depending on the types of different surfaces and materials.

This is why it is a prerequisite to clean and disinfect all the surfaces in your house, in a bid to remain safe, and more so during a move.

So, for your convenience, we discuss a few easy and practical tips that will help you in your sanitisation processes during a move.

1. Get the right cleaning supplies.

The disinfectants that you use while cleaning surfaces as well as your goods are of critical importance. The concentration of the liquids, as well as the contact time, are of vital importance. Pay heed to that with proper discretion.

There are other factors as well, like product stability, toxicity or ease. Make sure to consider them well too before the cleaning procedure.

Hypochlorite-based products display a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity and can become extremely effective against several common pathogens at various concentrations.

2. Detect and sanitise the most-touched surfaces.

Certain surfaces are usually touched the most, like handles of doors and windows, the touchscreen of personal devices, work surfaces, toilet areas, and a few others. Identify them and use disinfectants in the right concentration to deep-clean the areas.

It is advisable to disinfect these areas first before deep-cleaning the entire home.

3. Protect yourself and others.

It is recommended that everyone should wash their hands with soap and water whenever possible as this can be a resistant factor against the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Even sanitisers with at least 60% alcohol can help to avoid spreading germs to others.

During a move, keep soaps and sanitisers within easy reach as people from the family, as well as the movers, might need to frequently use them and clean their hands.

4. Keep the doors open.

It’s best to avoid the most frequently touched surfaces, and doorknobs and keys would be most in use if doors are locked and unlocked multiple times during a move. It’s best to keep the doors open so that you stay away from harm’s way.

As the professional movers and packers’ crew bring and place cartons inside as well as outside the house, it’s easy to prevent them from touching items and surfaces, like doorknobs and keys, if the doors are kept open throughout the move.

Managing a move becomes easier if the standard pandemic protocols are followed, social distancing is practised, and sanitisation norms are abided by.

So, set aside the fears and get ready for a well-protected move even during the time of COVID-19.

Praful Gupta: Head – Commercial and Asset Mobility

Author Bio: Praful Gupta is PMI certified Project Management Professional who heads the Commercial and Asset mobility practice at Writer Relocations. He has a rich and diverse experience in designing and implementing solutions driven by customer issues, technology and compliance in buildings, industries and large production facilities. Over the past 10+ years he has worked in organisations of a diverse set of trade including Energy Optimisation, Automation, Pharmaceutical Process Consultation, Logistics planning and Programme Management. As a business leader he currently handles all major B2B customer engagements and specialty move projects for domestic and international logistics.

When you’re planning an international move, or getting ready to head back home after your stint in a location is over, your mind is mostly focused on three major aspects of the relocation process:

• Removal of the household goods
• Searching for places to live in the new destination
• Understanding and settling down in a foreign location or back home

In this process, what’s often overlooked are the small but very crucial tasks that are essential to check off the list before you depart from your current location.

As one of the leading international removal companies, Writer Relocations has seen that these small things can often become quite taxing for you to complete all by yourself. These things can be as small as closing down your internet and cable TV subscriptions, notifying the utility companies, getting your kids’ transcripts for initiating the transfer process to a new school, booking cleaning services of the house, arranging for your pets as you pack your household goods – well, the list is actually never-ending.

However, you need not have sleepless nights fretting about these. As a part of our Departure Services, we will provide assistance in resolving all of these issues for you.

The support we provide

We have our own professional relocation consultants who will take care of these necessary tasks for you. As per your time and convenience, they will have a meeting with you to understand what pending chores are left for you to finish, and will also offer valuable suggestions on other aspects that you might not have thought of earlier.

They will then chalk out a detailed plan and help you set up meetings to finally close or suspend accounts. If needed, or if you are pressed for time, our consultants can even close these accounts for you in your absence, if you give prior permission for the same.

Given below are the most common responsibilities that you can expect relocation consultants to execute as part of departure service assistance from professional service providers:

• Giving the leave notice to your landlord
• Informing the school and initiating a Transfer Certificate
• Transferring or closing utility accounts
• Closing your existing bank accounts in the city
• Closing memberships from places like sports clubs, gyms or others
• Clearing all your subscriptions and pending bills
• Closing your phone plan or looking for a more reasonable international plan
• Checking your house for repairs that need to be made before you can hand it back to the landlord
• Negotiating the return of your rental security deposit from your landlord
• Handling any insurance claims as part of your property handover

So, before you plan a move, discuss with your relocation consultant how to go about organising your departure services. For more than 65 years, Writer Relocations has been helping people to move across international borders seamlessly. Our Departure Service Assistance is noteworthy and it has helped many of our clients considerably as well.

It’s often thought that an office move will usually entail much upheaval, followed by a protracted period of settling in, as you and your employees eventually get used to the new office space and the facilities. However, many times, you have to make a move and specially, during these unprecedented times, it’s more than necessary to shift your office space because of various constraints. Reliable office movers and packers would help to ensure the relocation process is executed seamlessly. And after a much-needed move, you will certainly be able to reap the most essential benefits.

Let’s us read about the benefits of a hassle-free office move which can bring about a much-needed improvement in how your business functions.

Better space utilisation

In these COVID times, many of your staff members might be working from home and so you might not need such a big office space with the staff with which you might be operating from your office. In this way, if you shift to a new office space, which is smaller and more compact, you might save a lot of money in rentals. This money can help you in other business functions. So, team up with Writer Relocations, one of the most reliable names in office moves and you can be sure of a seamless relocation, and it will turn out to be cost-effective in the long run.

Closer to clients

The location of an office is as crucial as its size and the amenities it offers, if not more. There are some businesses, which for a proper execution need to be in the client vicinity. You might feel that your business isn’t reaching the right target audience that it should or that the staff members are facing hassles when it comes to meeting certain specific clients. At that juncture, an office relocation will be beneficial for you.

Gives the business the opportunity to reach its potential

When the COVID situation improves and all the staff members start operating from office, the visibility factor will become crucial once more. So, now it might be the best time for a move, because the rentals are comparatively low or reasonable. So, you might be able to crack the best deals possible.

A move to a location that’s more suitable might help you acknowledge the capabilities of your business and boost upon the best practices like never before. The new environment can up the motivation quotient of all the employees and help them work towards the next level altogether. This can improve the work quality.

Save expenses in the long run

You have to understand if your current office space is giving you the right value for money. If it’s not, then you must not hesitate to undergo an office move. It might seem a costly affair to begin with, but the right office relocation partner, like Writer Relocations can help make the process seamless.

An office is more than a space to just work, it’s a zone where you and all your employees need to be in complete sync with your professional responsibilities in order to come up with the best results. So, look for that ideal space and we at Writer Relocations are there to shoulder all the office move responsibilities.

The main advantage of an office relocation is an immediate return on investment specifically on rental expenses which can happen as one moves into a more economical area or consolidation of office spaces. One can also move their assets into storage to save on a considerable amount of rental till the time work from home is considered inevitable.

Writer Relocations can help you achieve this at a fraction of the cost that you will save by moving your assets into storage of cheaper real estate. We partner and consult our clients into making such transitions with ease.

Even amidst the times of COVID-19, businesses across the world are slowly opening up. To keep ourselves safe, there is a spike in sanitisation measures, and everyone is being super cautious about safety and hygiene. In this scenario, keeping the business perspective in mind, you might have to send across some of your key resources to other cities from the base location. However, since people are your greatest assets, you cannot ignore their safety and well-being as well. Writer Relocations, as one of the leading global removal companies, is here to solve all your problems. As a part of our consulting assignment management, we offer the full spectrum of relocation and consulting services to businesses and their assignees, and keeping in mind all the safety and hygiene concerns of the current times as well.

We can be partners to the HR processes of organisations, when it comes to reaching out to those employees who have been assigned to shift base to a new location as per their job requirements. It might be a whole new city, a new country, or maybe a new continent altogether.

At this juncture, it is important to take into consideration their well-being primarily. And we at Writer Relocations, help to do that as well. The task at hand is not merely to help move employees from point A to point B, but ensure they settle in as well so that they continue to function seamlessly from a new location.

And as you broaden your horizon and allow your employees to go offshore, you help make your business become increasingly dynamic. Let’s see what the areas are, where you can boost your business as you let your employees work from diverse locations globally.

Increase your customer base

Your employees can reach out to new customer bases when they go and work from another location altogether. They understand the client’s perspectives and choices better, and cater personalised services accordingly, which boosts your business in the long run. This will for sure open more doors of opportunities and make you more profitable as an organisation.
And when it comes to sending your employees to respective locations, you need not take that added hassle. At Writer Relocations, the bouquet of our services under Consulting and Assignment can take up this complete responsibility for you.

New ways of working lead to greater productivity

Your employees get to learn new ways of working in a new place. And many times, a fresh new perspective is essential to help businesses grow and boost revenues. Processes are improved and solution-finding becomes easy with more people from diverse backgrounds sorting out issues.

Opportunities to relocate attract new candidates

When a business offers opportunities to work from onsite locations to employees, the worth of the company increases. It’s quite understandable that your employees would want to be a part of the global workforce so if you can provide that opportunity then your business will certainly get increasingly lucrative to greater talents.

So, help your employees grow and they will for sure give you the returns in the long run. For all your relocation concerns we are there to sort them out, even during these times of global pandemic. From consulting & assignment, residence facilities, and expense management, rental & utility payments, and mobility consulting, we offer every possible service, so that your resources can settle down without any hassles in the new country.

It’s an unsettling phase in all our lives as we battle it out with COVID-19. But slowly as the lockdown restrictions are being eased, we have to resume our business even as we are facing this unprecedented crisis. So, when you have decided to shift back to office premises or plan to relocate to a new location, slowly and steadily, it’s best to opt for a professional service provider when it comes to your asset moving.  As one of the leading overseas removal companies, Writer Relocations understands the intricacies of asset moving and as a move partner will ensure the work gets executed seamlessly.

Read on to understand the benefits of hiring a professional moving company as you resume your business operations from the office.

Stress-free relocation:

An effort has to be put to allay the burden on the employees as far as possible so that they can focus on their business responsibilities. If employees have to chalk out plans to relocate from one point to another, it becomes a complicated process for all. As a business owner or the person responsible for the relocation process, you need to understand that employees are a company’s biggest asset, so they need to be protected as far as possible in this transition phase.
At Writer Relocations, along with taking that responsibility on us, we provide the assurance to follow all the safety measures and hygiene protocols as a part of our resolve to protect the community at large.

Entrusting the responsibility on safe hands:

After a hiatus for the COVID outbreak, this office resumption is very crucial for your business. You cannot let your office equipment, furniture, and various types of machinery get damaged in some way during a move. So, it’s best to assign responsibility to an experienced player who understands the job well. As an international moving services provider, Writer Relocations knows how to handle each of your equipment, machinery, and furniture in the best possible way. The experts know how to shift electronic equipment seamlessly and will ensure they are unscathed during a move process. The right moving and packing materials will ensure that all your assets are safe during transit.

Cost-efficient:

You might not realise it, but when you have an overseas removal company as your move partner, you undoubtedly end up saving more money. It’s a faster and efficient process and these moving experts show the necessary professionalism through their quick turnaround time.

Reduced business disruptions:

Now that you will or already have resumed your business operations from the office premises, you need to focus on your work without any interruptions. A reliable moving partner will make sure you do not miss anything during a transition and your business functionalities go unhindered.

So, whether you’re planning to move a multi-office building or perhaps just a single one, remember these benefits, and partner with the right moving company for a seamless move.