Three things worth printing out

You have signed a lease and the move is somewhere between six weeks and next month away.

Moving an office breaks more IT than any other single event, and almost always for the same reason: the internet connection at the new building was ordered too late. A business line can take weeks that nobody warned you about, and no amount of paying extra compresses it.

This is the sequence in the order things actually have to happen, with the items that have a lead time flagged so you can start them first. It covers the connection, the cabling, the phones, the alarm and camera transfer, what to do with the old site, and the week-of list.

Why it is worth having: Because the expensive mistakes on a move are all scheduling mistakes, and they are all avoidable if you know which things have a queue in front of them.

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You are changing IT providers, or your IT person is leaving.

The dangerous moment in a handover is not the technical work. It is the gap between the old provider losing access and the new one having it, and the things nobody thought to ask for until they were already gone.

Domain registrar login. DNS control. The Microsoft 365 global admin account. Licence keys. The alarm and camera system passwords. Backup credentials. Where the backups actually are. This is the list, in the order to work through it, with the ones that are genuinely hard to recover afterwards marked.

Why it is worth having: Because every item on it is straightforward to get while the relationship is intact and painful to get afterwards.

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You have cameras, or you are about to, and you employ people in Ontario.

Ontario employers with 25 or more employees are required to have a written policy on electronic monitoring and to give a copy to every employee. Cameras, computer monitoring, vehicle tracking: if you do any of it, the policy is not optional.

This is a starting point with the required sections laid out and the blanks marked. It is a template rather than legal advice, and it is a great deal better than the nothing most small employers have.

Why it is worth having: Because it takes an afternoon with this in front of you and is an awkward conversation without it.

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