Editor's Blog: We've moved

As our colleagues over on silicon.com's sister publication ZDNet UK pointed out last week, moving offices is fraught with difficulties for any IT department, many of which are increasingly being combined with the traditional facilities function.

But it needn't be hell.

And so it is with something approaching a smile that I can say our own office move, to shiny refurbed offices in sunny Southwark, just behind the Tate Modern, has gone well.

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Our IT and facilities guys worked over the long weekend and now we're here, online to each other and the world. I hope you didn't notice a thing.

One thing became clearer than it ever had, during the run up to the move: the value we place these days on a connection to the internet.

We see it most days on a personal level, whether it be working from home, getting online at some event or even checking sports scores over a phone at the weekend. Or any other time.

But how many businesses - maybe that should read 'successful businesses' - can be offline for any length of time?

I have to say our comms provider Thus pulled out a few stops and worked with the people over at BT to get our big fat pipe as it should be. We expected nothing less.

But, as ever, it's the guys with their sleeves rolled up at the coalface, to mix a few metaphors, who carried much of the burden. In your organisation, you're either one of these people (at various levels) or you rely on them - silicon.com readers are split 50/50 between those two camps. Thanks for all the work, guys.

And that leads me to something of a plug for the silicon.com Skills Survey 2007. This year's research asks many of the questions of years past - and as there have been quite a few of those years we've built up a great picture of the IT workforce in the UK.

If you're interested in the way we work with IT, the technical/non-technical balance, offshoring, or booming tech areas such as mobility or SOA, please take the five minutes we need to build an even better picture.

We should have put in a question about office moves.