Helping a global bank optimise and reduce space
Customer Success Stories
A global 500 bank needed to optimise office space utilisation in order to downsize its real estate footprint and reduce costs.
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
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
Clean start walkthrough and assessment performed and identified:
- Over 3m pieces of paper In filing cabinets, on open shelves, and at employee desks
- 1.5k sq. Ft. Of space occupied by obsolete it assets
- Over 200 boxes of books, clothing, and promotional materials that were eligible for donation