We’re about 2 years into the current state of events, and while the pandemic is relatively considered to be under control, it’s changed the way many companies operate as well as how workers commute. Working from Home (WFH) has become a mainstay for employees that aren’t required on a jobsite to perform their day-to-day functions. This has, inherently, also changed the way that companies do business with many focusing on improving ways to communicate with their workforce and keep the ship steady.

If you run a business that has remote employees, you already know that equipment exchange – such as providing them with computers, monitors, towers, laptops, accessories, and so forth – can be time consuming and tedious. From swapping out equipment for upgrades to onboarding new employees with equipment and offboarding exiting employees by making it easy for them to send their equipment back to your company.

Work From Home (WFH) Is Here to Stay

Recent research by Pew indicates that: “Roughly six-in-ten U.S. workers who say their jobs can mainly be done from home (59%) are working from home all or most of the time. The vast majority of these workers (83%) say they were working from home even before the omicron variant started to spread in the United States, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.”

Working from home is here and it’s here to stay. In an increasingly decentralized workforce, it’s important to keep all the dots connected. Ensuring that your employees have the tools they need to perform their job, while also having a means by which to keep track of valuable and often sensitive company equipment is mission critical.

New Challenges for Offboarding & Onboarding

Unsurprisingly, employee ability and performance doesn’t degrade in a WFH environment; to the contrary, it improves for most employees. But these improvements don’t come without new challenges that employers must rise to meet.

➡️ Ensuring performance and output

➡️ Team and company culture

➡️ Connecting team members

➡️ Equipment upgrades, exchanges and returns

New Technology Has the Answer

For employers with remote workers using company equipment, there is a new solution that can streamline remote employee equipment exchanges and returns. It’s called ReadyReturns.

ReadyReturns gives you complete control of the entire equipment return process.

➡️ Offer front-door pickups

➡️ Employees don’t need to worry about repacking the goods

➡️ Your equipment is packaged according to your specifications

➡️ Images can be required before equipment return

➡️ Real-time tracking is available in the dashboard

➡️ Convenient return shipping options

➡️ Optional added insurance protection