Supporting a secure office closure and move

Customer Success Stories

A global pharmaceutical company needed to close and move from a 11,500 m2 office building during the start of the pandemic.

7 May 20248 mins
Clean Start Secure Office Closure

With only three months to vacate the space, limited facility access due to local restrictions, and a significant amount of dated records, IT assets, and employee belongings, the company turned to Iron Mountain Clean Start for help.

Industry

Life Sciences

Challenge

  • Closing a 11,500 m2 office, with over 1,000 employees
  • Building filled with sensitive documents, IT assets, and personal employee items, with limited space at new facility
  • Executing project during pandemic with minimal labour support

Solution

Iron Mountain Clean Start®

Outcome

  • Secure destruction of over 36 tons of documents
  • Bulk and itemised destruction of obsolete IT assets
  • Itemised, packed, and moved over 500 employee workstations
  • Labour resources to support on-time project completion

Clean start walkthrough and assessment performed and identified:

  • 22m+ documents in filing cabinets, shelves, and boxes
  • Over 1,700 pieces of equipment, furniture, and IT assets needing temporary storage, relocation, or disposal
  • Opportunity to digitise and destroy documents and transition to a paperless future at the new location