To think sod it and do this in work tomorrow

[Roaroarasloudasthunder]

I’m a head of department. As a team we have been talking for months about wanting to rearrange our office room (only my team use this room, it’s not a shared room with another department) but never get a day where we have time to do it. I run an in-house PR team. WIBU to just put the phones on do not disturb tomorrow and then me and team can finally rearrange the room? We have our work emails on our phones so we would see any urgent enquiries on our emails on our phones. Rearranging the room will involve moving all the tables and unplugging and moving the computers too probably. The only way I’ll ever get time to do it is if I make the time like this, we’ll never get a day quiet enough to do it I don’t think as we have been trying for months

[Roaroarasloudasthunder]

@Bagzzz

As long as management clear it (or are you management which would be ideal). You don’t want a senior calling and not getting anyone at all. If you were in today I presume anything urgent from bank holiday were dealt with.

Not sure your dress code . Can you contact the others to say to come suitably dressed in case it’s dusty?

I am management, head of the PR team. Could maybe ask IT if it’s possible to divert the phones to our mobiles even while they are unplugged, but not sure if it’s possible to have them on divert while unplugged?

[Roaroarasloudasthunder]

@DementedPanda

Depends if you need IT support to move floor boxes and other technical stuff?

Yes I would have to call IT down first thing in the morning as soon as I get in

[DementedPanda]

Depends if you need IT support to move floor boxes and other technical stuff?

[Bagzzz]

As long as management clear it (or are you management which would be ideal). You don’t want a senior calling and not getting anyone at all. If you were in today I presume anything urgent from bank holiday were dealt with.

Not sure your dress code . Can you contact the others to say to come suitably dressed in case it’s dusty?

[Roaroarasloudasthunder]

If I can’t leave a phone in I’ll get reception to field the calls

[Roaroarasloudasthunder]

@MedievalNun

I'd leave one phone plugged in for urgent in a place where it's easily reached, put a pen & paper by it and do the re-arrange. As long as you can access emergency calls / emails and your clients can still reach you go for it. Maybe ask the reception team to field calls if you can't leave a phone on - they can say it's a team conference or briefing in the hour or so it will take.

I will probably leave one phone plugged in

[Roaroarasloudasthunder]

@woodstocky

Do it! I work in a marketing department and we do stuff like this all the time. We also love clearing out the cupboards etc. it's so satisfying

The room desperately needs rearranging, it’s not fit for purpose anymore. I’m so jealous of the team next door who have a way better room than us, I always wish we could swap rooms with them

[Roaroarasloudasthunder]

@MedievalNun

I'd leave one phone plugged in for urgent in a place where it's easily reached, put a pen & paper by it and do the re-arrange. As long as you can access emergency calls / emails and your clients can still reach you go for it. Maybe ask the reception team to field calls if you can't leave a phone on - they can say it's a team conference or briefing in the hour or so it will take.

Hour or so?? It’ll take all day for my team to decide on a layout as they’ll want to try multiple and put the tables in those places and see if they like it. And then we are not permitted to plug in or unplug the computers are phones so I’ll have to get IT down for that.

[woodstocky]

Do it! I work in a marketing department and we do stuff like this all the time. We also love clearing out the cupboards etc. it's so satisfying

[Roaroarasloudasthunder]

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon

Do it.

We randomly decorate at my work if we have quiet days.

We never get days quiet enough but we’ve been saying for months that the room needs rearranging. I’ll just make the time tomorrow

[MedievalNun]

I'd leave one phone plugged in for urgent in a place where it's easily reached, put a pen & paper by it and do the re-arrange. As long as you can access emergency calls / emails and your clients can still reach you go for it. Maybe ask the reception team to field calls if you can't leave a phone on - they can say it's a team conference or briefing in the hour or so it will take.

[TheLightSideOfTheMoon]

Do it.

We randomly decorate at my work if we have quiet days.