Reduce Costs by reducing Clutter

Let’s start with a couple of questions that any company looking to save money will know.

1. How much do you spend on renting your premises each month?
2. How much square footage do you rent?
3. What is the square footage cost to you of renting that space?
4. How much square footage do you provide for each employee?
5. Do you provide sufficient square footage per employee?
6. How many employees do you have?
7. Do you use off site storage facilities?
8. If you answer to question 7 is ‘yes’, how much?
9. How much does the spce in question 8 cost you per month?
10. What is 10% of your answer to question 2?
11. Is your answer to question 8 greater, smaller or nearly the same as your answer to question 10?
12. If you could create 10% more space in your offices, would you prefer to:

use the extra square footage detailed in question 10 for more office activities?

Save the money detailed in question 9?

Increase the amount of square footage that each member of staff has?

It’s simple.

By de-cluttering your office space you can either save money or create more space.

The cost of Your Insurance

It’s not just clients who may be making judgements about you because of your clutter. When your building insurance inspector comes to assess your building each year, his decision about the premium you pay will be affected by the clutter.

Why?

The amount of paper you have in your office is a fire risk – fire would spread very quickly. If your paper was just organised and sorted so that it could be stored in fire resistant or lockable plastic filing cabinets, fire wouldn’t be able to travel as quickly through the building.

Furthermore, if the fire spread to other offices in the building and the fire report identified your office as the place where the fire spread the quickest, this could lead to claims from other companies against you because you did not take reasonable preventative action to reduce the risk of a fire spreading throughout the building.

Insurance inspectors, both buildings and other, will be asking themselves questions like:

How much of the building could be destroyed by fire before the fire brigade arrive?’ i.e. the more than can be destroyed, the higher the insurance claim.

Would an employee be able to quickly and easily find the fire extinguisher?

Would an employee be able to quickly and safely get out of the building without tripping up?

How much damage could be done between identifying the fire and getting to it with a fire extinguisher?

If there was a fire, how much of the company’s business would be lost? Therefore what is the risk of the business being unable to operate for a given period of time and what’s the level of risk of it going bust?

If you'd like to save money on the cost of your insurance, or any other overheads by clearing your clutter, call us on 01295 275030 and we can discuss how we can help you.