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September 22, 2022
Whether you’re downsizing as more staff are working at home or expanding having just landed a new order, there’s a lot to consider when moving your office or workspace.
Where do you go? Is it an easy commute? Is it close to your customer base? How much will it cost?
While it’s a busy time it’s also a good opportunity to take stock of how you operate as a business – to see if you can run things more effectively and efficiently using digital tools and services.
And given you’ll no doubt be working through the admin of changing address anyway, it’s also a good chance to talk to your IT person or have a look at your broadband plan and provider to ensure your internet connection is ready for the new location and any new digital applications you use.
Will your internet help you grow, or make you slow? Check out if fibre is available at your new place.
What to consider before you move
A good place to start is to get a feel for how reliant you are currently on the internet to function and what your current data usage is.
- Is good connectivity key to servicing your customers?
- How much data do you chew through on a daily basis?
- How many of your team need to be online at the same time every day?
- Do you need databases and systems for your team to do their job?
- What apps can you use to improve productivity and efficiency?
- What would the impact be on your business if outages occurred?
Once you get a feel for your internet usage, it’s then a case of ensuring the broadband available at your new premises is ‘fit for purpose’ before you sign the lease. Otherwise, you could be facing downtime, outages and issues that could get in the way of your business performing and scaling.
Check: Is fibre available at your new address?
Fibre provides New Zealand businesses with fast and reliable connectivity and deserves a top spot on your new premises non-negotiables list.
What makes fibre so great?
Its speed: Fibre is the fastest broadband technology available in New Zealand based on independent testing. Harness its speed for the tools you use today, and the technology you’re going to need tomorrow.
Its capacity: Fibre has huge bandwidth capacity and can cater for all your business broadband needs no matter how many people are using it, or what they’re doing – browsing, streaming, video conferencing or sharing large files.
Its reliability: At Chorus we work hard to ensure our network is congestion free, ensuring a more reliable and consistent experience than other broadband technologies.
You can use Chorus’ Broadband Checker to see if fibre is available at your prospective premise. Click here.
Available at your address but not in your premises yet: As long as fibre broadband is available to the building, then your broadband service provider can order it to be installed to your new workspace by a Chorus technician. Then it’s a case of contacting the provider to get your business broadband plan or subscription sorted.
Not available at your address yet: There are other broadband technologies like VDSL available on the Chorus copper network which provides good internet speeds and capacity for most business connectivity needs. If having rock-solid, lightning-fast internet is a must for your business you may want to consider other premises where fibre's available.
Available at your address and already in your premises: Get in touch with your broadband service provider as soon as possible to let them know you are moving and to prepare for the switch. It should only take a few minutes to update your broadband plan once you’ve given them the go-ahead.
Be sure you’re on a business fibre connection
Having fibre is one thing but ensuring your service provider puts you on a Chorus business fibre connection will have you working smarter and protecting the (digital) backbone of your business. These plans are tailored by Chorus towards business connectivity needs and most providers sell broadband plans that use business fibre connections.
The sort of additional features you’ll get is a service called ‘business restore’. This means if (in the unlikely event) you have trouble with your connection, you’ll be back up and running within 24 hours (6 hours if it happens before midday). You cannot get this service on residential plans.
With a new premises checklist as long as your arm, moving to a broadband service on a business fibre connection organised ahead of time will ensure you and your team don’t skip a beat on move-in day. Even if the desks haven’t arrived!