Supporting a secure office closure and move

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