A relocation project requires much more than the ability to pack boxes and load trucks. Whether a client is moving to a new company headquarters or satellite office, restacking an existing facility, or consolidating several locations into one, a relocation can have a significant impact on business operations. Clients often wrestle with concerns about making sure daily business activity is not interrupted and other operational processes are not affected.

Macro Consultants provides comprehensive, executive-level management services to develop and implement a relocation plan that is sure to be feasible and practical. Setting Macro apart is the ability to:

Engage in boardroom-level planning;
Perform impact analysis and cost/benefit analysis;
Provide senior-level analysis such as feasibility planning, scenario planning and contingency planning;
Develop realistic schedules that have been vetted by a painstaking, detailed analysis of contributing factors;
Anticipate and circumvent logistical challenges and bottlenecks;
Create comprehensive employee communications programs;
Engage employees in the project process and establish a sense of ownership and pride at all levels of the organization;
Identify cost-savings, cost-avoidance and value engineering opportunities.

Macro builds corporate relocation programs around the critical goal of business continuity. From the planning and feasibility stages, Macro leads the client and project team through every aspect of the move to ensure that the client’s downtime is all but eliminated.

A key strategy to ensuring business continuity is establishing an effective employee communications program. To help temper the potential maelstrom of fear, uncertainty and doubt that often accompanies a relocation, Macro creates web portals for employees, allowing them access to important move information and frequently asked questions at any given time, so accurate information – and not speculation – can be spread as widely as possible. Macro also works with and empowers the client move coordinators, who act as employee representatives and are invited to raise issues and questions that need to be addressed.

Macro creates Welcome Packages for employees, familiarizing them with the new office space, building layout and amenities, processes and procedures; as well as the neighborhood and surroundings, if necessary.

As the move-in process reaches its crescendo and employees walk into their new surroundings for the first time, Macro remains as visible as ever, anticipating and answering questions, transforming what can often be a tense situation into one of excitement.