December 6—8, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA – To continue being Pittsburgh’s premier office mover, South Hills Movers’ owner, Bob Lee, hosted its third IOMI® training seminar since 1999. Every key sales, administrative, operations, and customer service employee participated in the 3-day, in-person, training. To ensure they provide a consistently high level of service, the company also enrolled in IOMI’s online seminar, which provides unlimited ongoing training for all their employees, including those who do the actual moves.
Tim Cornuet, Director, Commercial Division of South Hills Movers, summed it up when he said, “Ed, thank you so much for coming to Pittsburgh and sharing your invaluable office moving techniques. Your training last week reinforced what you taught us in the past. As the only IOMI Certified Office Mover® in Pittsburgh, we have the tools to estimate accurately so our moves can finish on time for the price quoted. Ed, thank you— your IOMI best practice methods really work. We use them to minimize the risk of damage to our clients’ furniture, computers, and their office space.”
Robert “Bob” E. Lee, owner 
Left to Right: Tim Cornuet, Director, Commercial Division, and Mark Schleicher 
Ed Katz, IOMI Instructor “preaching to the choir” 
Ed Katz, IOMI instructor, “Yucking it up” with his students 
Ed Katz, IOMI instructor
And, of course, we had to have dinner at the famous Primanti Bros’ deli
Where they serve french-fries on their corned beef sandwiches
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For more than a decade, many in the moving industry and companies planning a move have come to rely on officemoves.com as a steadfast source of best practices. We advocate, and through the International Office Moving Institute (IOMI®), teach:
• Minimizing the risk of damage to walls, floors, doors and elevators during your move. IOMI® Certified Office Movers® and Certified Project Managers® learn the best practice methods for installing extensive building protection.
• Minimizing the risk of damage to furniture and computers during your move. IOMI® Certified Office Movers® and Certified Project Managers® learn the best-practice methods for wrapping every monitor, printer, CPU, server, and copier with two layers of anti-static bubble wrap (with the bubbles facing the bubbles) instead of pad-wrapping computers with filthy furniture pads.
• Timing is of the essence on your office move. If your mover doesn’t finish the job on time, it can cost your company thousands of dollars of nonproductive downtime. IOMI® Certified Office Movers® and Certified Project Managers® learn an estimating formula that’s based upon man-hours instead of the unreliable method typically used on household moves that’s based on weight.
The IOMI® proprietary estimating formula is uncannily accurate because it factors in not only volume but the unique logistics of both the building you’re moving from and to.
Why hire an IOMI®
Certified Office Mover®?
1. On time for the price quoted
One of the biggest complaints about movers is that they often badly underestimate the cost of a move and then don’t finish on time. An International Office Moving Institute (IOMI®)-trained mover learns a formula for accurately estimating cost. By calculating the number of trucks and movers for how long, IOMI® Certified Office Movers® can base estimates on man-hours, volume, and logistics, and not weight, which household movers typically use when quoting an office move. As a result, the chances of a move completing on time for the price quoted is greatly improved.
2. Minimize risk of damage
IOMI® Certified Office Movers® learn the latest techniques to minimize risk of damage to furniture and computers, and are trained in extensive building protection to minimize risk of damage to carpet, walls, doors, and door jambs.
3. Minimize downtime
There is a better way! IOMI® Certified Office Movers® understand that their customers can’t afford to shut down operations during a move, and are trained in techniques to keep client employees working. Many IOMI® graduates offer the “boxless” move — moving the contents in the furniture instead of the contents and the furniture.
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