How to Make an Effective Equipment Return Policy for Remote Workers

Did you know that almost 40% of employees work from home these days? Many rely on company provided equipment, which means that there’s a need for entities to revamp their equipment return policy for these workers. This article will provide detailed information as well as the step by step process employers can use to ensure that their valuable remote workers have the equipment they need when they need it, and that the company can easily streamline the return of this equipment during onboarding, offboarding or for upgrades and exchanges. 

Creating An Equipment Return Policy for Remote Workers

The first place you’re going to want to start is with your equipment return policy for remote workers. If you’re like 70% of companies in the United States that have a remote workforce, then chances are that you already have something in place that denotes the ownership of the equipment and that entails what’s required by the employee in the event of offboarding, exchanges, upgrades or return of damaged goods. 

Consider this: your company equipment return policy doesn’t include options for automating the return of equipment, so you’re going to want to update it sooner rather than later. With the right system in place, however, you can easily automate this process and make a simple amendment to your existing policy that helps your employees understand that all future returns and exchanges are automated. 

How to Automate Remote Employee Company Equipment Return

Automation has changed everything. It makes our lives easier and it helps us focus our efforts on the tasks at hand that truly require human attention. But what options exist that you can use right now to automate remote employee company equipment return and tackle this time-consuming headache once and for all? 

The answer is ReadyReturns equipment return software. How can it help your company ease onboarding, offboarding and exchanges of valuable company equipment, which often costs your entity between $2,500 and $5,000 per employee? 

Here’s how simple the process can be in the future: 

• Your employees understand that they are obligated to use this automated process as outlined in your updated equipment return policy for remote workers. 
• Our team sets up your account, your shipping and return packaging and insurance specifications through UPS as the carrier. 
• Using ReadyReturns, you simply generate a QR code return shipping label that is automatically sent to your employee’s smartphone. 
• The employee takes the equipment to any UPS Store, where the QR code on their smartphone is scanned. 
• The UPS Store packages the equipment per your specifications and safely ships it back to you. 
• Your company is updated every time the QR code is scanned as well as when the equipment has been returned. 

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