Two offices into one neighbourhood map
Kestrel Environmental needed to close a leased suite in Subiaco and absorb forty-two people into an expanded West Perth floor within eleven weeks. Facilities had a fit-out schedule; HR had a headcount list; neither owned the staff narrative. Branch Base ran a readiness workshop, built a three-wave communication plan, and facilitated seating neighbourhoods by collaboration need rather than by who asked first. Move weekend ran over by half a day because of lift access, yet Monday morning briefings still went ahead with printed floor guides. By week three, the issues board was down to printer defaults and visitor parking—ordinary settling items, not existential confusion.
“During our consolidation of two Perth satellite offices, Branch Base helped us sequence announcements so finance and field staff did not hear different stories. The seating plan process took longer than we hoped, but the neighbourhood approach avoided the usual desk politics.”