Feature and Insight PSG’s notoriously itchy feet

By Duncan Parsons

CEO Duncan@tpsg.co.uk

PSG’s notoriously itchy feet!

We have always had an unusually flexible approach to home working, long before the pandemic forced employers of all stripes down that road.

As we’ve covered in a previous article, this progressive attitude of ours made life easy for us when home working en masse became an overnight nationwide thing. It’s also allowed us to prolong our stay in any office due to not needing the physical space that would otherwise be essential if everyone we employed were to come to the office every day.

That said, we have continued to expand throughout the hokey kokey of the pandemic and despite this flexibility, we need more space. Again. In fact, writing this gives me a strong sense of deja vu. An office move is no small feat though, and finding a new PSG HQ was a hard task. After all, we leave behind us a stunning office, nestled in beautiful grounds. The type of environment we were very proud to offer and never thought we’d chose to give up. Box House was a keeper, or so we thought.

As wedded as we were to our comfy rural idyl, moving is, or can be if you go about it in the right way, about more than just responding to that immediate catalyst for it. In our case, the need for more space. We decided to seize the opportunity and view this as a chance for a new look, a new, more urban setting, and a chance to find a better ratio of the flexible home working so many now enjoy, and the buzz of the office so many miss.

As I type this from my home office in Devon, these are all hopes and aims, but as you read this, we hope to be ensconed in our dead hip new environs very soon, kicking off 2022 with a cocky swagger. It’s a bold step, and one not met with universal excitement. But it’s the right thing to do. We were never going to be able to stay at Box House and the office was, in all honesty, underused in certain respects. While we’ll never replicate the pastoral elegance of our village environs, we are swapping that for access to everything a town offers, and a village lacks. We’re also trusting that our new landlord is able to realise their exciting vision for the building and the spaces immediately outside it. If they are, we’ll be early adopters of, and contributors to, a vibrant redevelopment that we’ll see taking place around us.

So if you find yourself in Melksham later this year, pop in for a brew, we’d love to see you. Just look for a big red brick chimney.

An office move is no small feat, and finding a new PSG HQ was a hard task.