Remember the days of in-office employees, water cooler chats and team happy hours at the brewery down the street? For the most part, those days are long gone — 26% of employees work remotely in 2022, as opposed to only 4% who were remote before the pandemic. And although there are plenty of benefits for the workforce, it’s proving challenging for organizations that need to distribute (and, later, collect) equipment for their employees. It sounds daunting, but the right technology can streamline the process. 

Software built to return company owned equipment expedites the management of your organization’s equipment so you, your employees and your IT staff can avoid the headaches. Keep reading to learn why making it easy for your employees actually makes it easy for you.

1. You save time: Save yourself the hassle of outreach and empower employees to DIY.
2. You get detailed insights: See product images, customizable resolution options and tracking tools to identify each unique return.
3. You can locate your equipment: You’ll know where it is on its journey from the previous owner back to headquarters.
4. It’s mobile friendly: No special tools required — just a smartphone.
5. Upgrades are smoother: Incentivize employees with better equipment that they can easily exchange.
6. Promotions are sweeter: Opt for upgraded equipment to be part of promotion packages.
7. You won’t sweat the field rep equipment refreshes: Minimize interruptions during their much-needed equipment refreshes.
8. There are no excuses: Employees current and former can’t argue with a no-box-required dropoff to a UPS Store. 
9. You can schedule a home pickup: No transportation? No problem. Just send the shipping carrier to the employee’s location. 
10. You’ll boost your reputation: Former employees will look upon their simple offboarding processes more favorably.
11. Your calls are being screened: Terminated employees are likely avoiding contact with you and are less than thrilled about coordinating an equipment return.
12. Onboarding goes smoothly: No more waiting around for former employees to return company owned equipment so your new hires can start using it.
13. There are fewer steps: Sourcing boxes, setting up shipments and manually tracking? No thanks. Just automate it.
14. You have fewer expense reports to file: Lessen the burden with fewer receipts for shipping materials.
15. You can quickly repair broken equipment: The faster it gets to the repair shop, the better.
16. You can set a maintenance cadence: Want to check in on your company owned equipment? Have employees make returns on a regular cadence for maintenance. 
17. You ensure correct equipment info: Leave it to the technology to provide employees with the accurate details of the equipment they’re using.
18. You decrease security risk: Minimizing the time company technology is out in the field improves security of company data. 
19. HR can skip the payroll adjustment: Former employees who don’t return company owned equipment can be on the hook for the cost of that equipment. Save HR the trouble of adjusting payroll by simplifying the return. 
20. You can plug in easy returns to your existing system: Adding a new tool isn’t so bad when it works seamlessly with the solutions you’re already using.