yes - that was less than perfect. but no other time would work for that
this is different. we are paying the same for their time no matter what they do
and the move can happen at the weekend, so no need to affect productivity
no point to pay a programmers salary to do a moving mans jobs
it means we are over paying to get the office moved, and delaying work to get done
both can easily be avoided
by simply arranging the move to happen on a saturday and have cheap labour do the work instead of the programmers (who are mostly too unfit to do the job efficiently anyway)