Helping a global bank optimise and reduce space

At the same time, evolving employee work habits created the need for a modern, collaborative, and digital workplace of the future. With high expectations and limited time to complete the project, the bank turned to Iron Mountain Clean Start for help.

Challenge

• The need to reduce office footprint by almost 50%
• A shift from an assigned seating arrangement to a flexible space, with years of files and other assets at employee desks
• Inefficient paper-heavy “keep everything” culture

Solution

Iron Mountain Clean Start®

Outcome

• 45% reduction in space (95K sq. ft. to 50K sq. ft.)
• Elimination of 95% of information space (filing cabinets, file room, storage of IT assets, etc.), freeing up 9.5K sq. ft.
• Over 375K pieces of paper digitised, with efficient, digital workflows implemented and adopted