How FMG's Partnership With Spaceti Benefits Your Next Office Move in the Nordics?

In this interview with Spaceti, FMG’s Senior Advisor Workspace, Martin Nilsen-Moe, shared his insights about the partnership and how it will benefit Nordic customers.

Hi Martin! We're looking forward to hearing about your company. Can you tell us more about First Mover Group and what makes it unique?

Headquartered at Skøyen in Oslo, First Mover Group is a leading Nordic player offering premium services to businesses on the move. Based on investments in technology, infrastructure, and a highly specialized workforce, we have a unique offering that adds significant value to our client's workplace investment.

We work daily to create Better Beginnings for our customers. We do that by providing a full range of services, starting with identifying future workplace needs, searching to find the perfect property, and negotiating the best deal for our customers.

Then we manage the entire project from A to Z, including coordination and construction follow-up, interior design specification, procurement services, and relocation planning. Finally, we execute the relocation process and return of existing premises. We manage the logistics and assembly of all new furniture, AV equipment, and racks and have you up and running at your new premises with minimum downtime.

Spaceti during a visit to the FMG HQ: Hieu Do, Max Verteletskyi, Andreas Skotvedt Irgens, Martin Nilsen-Moe

What markets do you operate in, and what is your company's vision?

FMG is headquartered at Skøyen in Oslo and operates in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.

Thousands of businesses sign new rental contracts in the Nordics each year. Many of these contracts result in relocation or upgrades of workplaces.

Our vision is "We create better beginnings". It reflects the work we do for our customers every day. We help them realize new dreams through better beginnings.

We state that we deliver our premium services "to businesses on the move" to clarify that our focus is on helping businesses, including private and public companies, institutions, and organizations. High quality or "premium services" is at the heart of who we are and what differentiates us from our competitors.

First Mover Group provides a comprehensive process for company relocation. Can you describe this process?

• Tenant advisory services: Future needs, workplace analysis, search for premises and contract negotiation, project management, construction follow-up, interior design specifications, and procurement services.
• Business relocation services: Project management services, including detailed planning, budgeting and follow-up, communication, and site management. Then, coordination of deliveries at a new facility, management of existing furniture (move/sale/dispose), coordination and execution of the relocation process, and return of existing premises.
• Logistics and assembly services: Storage, transportation, and assembly of office furniture, audio-visual equipment, warehouse racks, and other high-end equipment.

What do you see as key factors defining company relocation's success?

At the beginning of the project, the key is a project directive. The project directive describes the process that will lead and will provide all parties involved with a clear framework.

The project directive must set clear goals for the project and participants. The goals are broken down per subproject, and each subproject's responsibility is described in detail. An overall schedule with milestones will be established.

The Project Directive addresses:

• Values, strategy, and the project's vision
• Overall goals
• Measurement parameters and success criteria
• Project mandate
• Project management
• Subprojects
• Communication

We'd love to learn more about how partnering with Spaceti can benefit First Mover Group? How do you plan to use the analytics data?

The use of sensors will provide precise insights into actual presence and patterns from workplaces to meeting rooms and common areas. The data allows us to incur insight across the project and contribute to broader involvement.

We gather information from every employee, and this gives us concrete insights, which, combined with the sensors, provide us with the ability to understand the cultural and organizational needs and challenges we face. We can create smarter workspaces that encourage productivity and motivation by developing a deep understanding of how a business operates.

And finally: What do you think is going on with workplace transformation? How has it changed during the past years? Any insights or big-picture thoughts on how things will continue evolving over time?

Studies and experience during and after the pandemic indicate that flexibility and facilitation of autonomy, along with choices, increase the well-being and efficiency of individual employees.

We find that it is not necessarily changes in the number of square meters that are needed to realize the companies' ambitions for the workplace, but that it is more about the layout of the office. The market is reaching a consensus that the future will support an activity-based workplace and hybrid work-life balance.

About the Group:

First Mover Group Holding AS ("the Group" or FMGH) is a holding company controlling all the subsidiaries of FMG. The company was established when FMGH acquired First Mover Group AS (including its subsidiaries) on 7 May 2019.

FMG is headquartered at Skøyen in Oslo. The geographical reach includes all larger cities in Scandinavia, including Oslo, Drammen, Stavanger, Bergen, and Trondheim in Norway, Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö in Sweden, Copenhagen, and Aarhus in Denmark. The company also has a branch in Krefeld outside Düsseldorf in Germany.

FMGreen is First Mover Group's commitment to sustainability and social responsibility. Social responsibility and sustainability are embedded in our company culture, and we actively work to reduce both our clients' and our own environmental footprint. FMG is ISO certified 14001 and 9001.

More information can be found here.

Feel free to contact Spaceti for more information. We are more than happy to give you all the information you need!

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