10/23/2026
Moving one office is a project. Moving three in different cities is a vendor problem.
The second location is where most multi-site relocations come apart, not because the work is harder, but because you’re now managing three movers, three scopes, three sets of building requirements, and three local definitions of “done.”
Each one may be perfectly competent in its own market. None of them is accountable for your program.
What actually changes when a move crosses markets:
One scope, or three different ones. Separately sourced movers write separately scoped proposals. Packing included in one city, excluded in the next. Building protection in scope here, billed as an extra there. You find the gaps as change orders, one city at a time.
Standards travel badly. Labeling conventions, crate types, chain of custody for records and IT assets, how workstations get tagged; if it isn’t specified centrally, every market invents its own version, and your asset inventory stops reconciling at the end.
Nobody owns the schedule. Three local project managers reporting to three local supervisors is not a program. When one city slips a week and that pushes a shared IT cutover, there’s no one whose actual job it is to notice.
Johnson is a member of the Office Moving Alliance, a network of commercial movers working to shared standards from one market to the next. That’s the difference between hiring three movers and running one program.
Moving more than one location? That’s a different conversation than a single office. Call 1-800-BUY-MOVE.
