On the move

Today, for the third time this year our department was moved to another spot in the same building. I'm sure that the ultimate motive behind these moves is that our company as a whole works more efficient thus benefiting our shareholders, but packing and unpacking boxes everytime does make you wonder if that really can be true. It is not only this year that we've moved a lot. Last year we moved four times over the whole year. And every move costs at least one day.
This means that this year we've spent the following amount of hours not working because of work:

year	times moved	people	lost hours
2006 (whole year)	4	9	36
2007 (ytd)	3	7	21
Total			57

Mmmh, putting it in a table makes it look trivial. It's not even a whole week for this year. Ah well, with an hourly rate of about € 100,-- it still reflects a lot of money. The bright sides of it are of course that a) it provides the moving company a steady income and b) The things I keep at work, books, brochures, printouts of documents are now down to a minimum. Still, I hope that the next move announcement will not come before the third quarter this year.

Zaaf