Why employee outfitting needs to change.

Your people are your organization’s destiny. The reality is that remote and hybrid work are here to stay. That means that employee equipment processes built for an era of office-centric work and service delivery have to change. Not only are employees being hired globally, but IT, HR, facilities, finance, and security teams are also remote from each other. The assumption of everyone coming into the office for onboarding, or visiting the IT closet to replace a broken laptop or get a new keyboard is not only outdated, it is now a business risk. Delivering poor employee experiences of IT and ergonomic support threatens your organization’s recruitment, retention, productivity, innovation, and fundamental competitiveness. Simply put, companies can’t afford not to evolve.

The flexible work challenge

Remote and hybrid work expose the limitations of traditional employee equipment processes-stretching them beyond the breaking point.

How to Defeat Remote Work IT Shipping Costs
Why are remote work IT shipping costs so high? And how do you solve for them? Find out in this blog that you'll want to share with your CFO.
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How to Double Your Laptop Retrievals from Remote Workers
Retrieving remote worker equipment is hard, and most companies are losing a significant percentage of their deployed remote work IT assets. Learn why and how you can dramatically improve your retrieval rates.
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Flexible work can drive productivity—but only when done right.
When companies contemplate adopting more flexible work like remote work and hybrid work, productivity is often top-of-mind. Before the pandemic, despite evidence on the contrary, many businesses avoided flexible work because they assumed that their workers’ productivity would take a hit. Yet, during the pandemic, it’s become increasingly clear that flexible work can drive productivity gains. Experts have argued that greater opportunities for flexible work will lead to a five percent productivity boost in the post-pandemic economy.
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The flexible work challenge

Remote and hybrid work expose the limitations of traditional employee equipment processes-stretching them beyond the breaking point.

Why employee outfitting needs to change.

How to Defeat Remote Work IT Shipping Costs
Why are remote work IT shipping costs so high? And how do you solve for them? Find out in this blog that you'll want to share with your CFO.
Read >>

How to Double Your Laptop Retrievals from Remote Workers
Retrieving remote worker equipment is hard, and most companies are losing a significant percentage of their deployed remote work IT assets. Learn why and how you can dramatically improve your retrieval rates.
Read >>

Flexible work can drive productivity—but only when done right.
When companies contemplate adopting more flexible work like remote work and hybrid work, productivity is often top-of-mind. Before the pandemic, despite evidence on the contrary, many businesses avoided flexible work because they assumed that their workers’ productivity would take a hit. Yet, during the pandemic, it’s become increasingly clear that flexible work can drive productivity gains. Experts have argued that greater opportunities for flexible work will lead to a five percent productivity boost in the post-pandemic economy.
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Industry Challenges

Manual and poorly-coordinated processes were the norm for equipping employees, and only worked due to close physical proximity in office settings. Those legacy methods break down in the distributed work era, at great cost to businesses.

Inefficient Processes

Manual, inefficient, and poorly-coordinated processes were the norm for equipping employees, impacting IT, HR, finance, facilities, and infosec teams. Legacy methods only worked due to close physical proximity in office settings. Those methods break down in the distributed work era, at great cost to business.

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High IT Asset Loss

Even before remote work exploded, end-user computing asset management was highly inefficient, leading to significant loss rates. According to pre-pandemic Gartner research, 30% of enterprise fixed IT assets such as laptops were "ghost assets." Remote work makes device retrieval rates far worse.

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Lost Productivity

In most enterprises, IT teams aren't resourced to go beyond initial deployments of end-user computing equipment.

This leads to end users not receiving timely refreshes and upgrades, resulting in productivity loss and employee frustration. Employees with outdates technology lose $3.6k of productivity annually on average, according to research by Intel.

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Security and compliance gaps

Poor retrieval rates, lost laptops, inconsistent asset tracking, and incomplete data destruction when retiring computers create significant security, compliance, and regulatory risks for corporations, with fines die to individual data breach incidents running in the millions of dollars.

Unsustainable practices

End-user computing represents nearly 50% of the IT carbon footprint at most enterprises. Yet due to poor asset management, most corporations have very poor rates of IT asset reuse during and after the equipment lifecycle.

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