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Devices aren’t cheap. We understand that you want to get every bit of use out of your company devices.
When the world was mainly office-based, and devices never left the site, reusing your company devices was straightforward. But now that the majority of companies are distributed across the globe, there’s a myriad of costs and logistics challenges that come with transferring devices between employees and across regions. Starting with the initial collection, through to redelivery to another city or country. (More on the logistics below).
Adding to the complexity is timing. If one employee happens to depart as another joins, this isn’t so much of an issue. But since this is rarely the reality, you also need to think about storage (and the admin and costs involved).
We’re passionate about removing all physical obstacles to distributed work. And that’s why today, we’re making it possible to store and reuse your Hofy devices. So that Hofy customers can maximize device usage. Cut significant costs. Easily transport devices across regions to match their hiring needs. And still offer an exceptional employee experience. In a few clicks.
Say a remote team member in Hong Kong doesn’t pass their probation. Or a software engineer in Kenya, with an expensive MacBook, leaves after 6 months. Their devices are at the beginning of their usable life.
Gifting nearly new devices to leavers is extremely expensive. It’s also not as simple as it sounds: gifting devices creates payroll and tax admin for you, and tax implications for your outgoing employees.
It makes financial sense to reuse devices in these situations. But unless you have offices, or people starting imminently, in the same regions as your leavers, you’ll need to figure out how to send their laptops back to your HQ. And the costs involved - customs charges, shipping and courier fees etc. - quickly add up.
As do the hours spent organizing a collection. You’ll need to find a reverse logistics provider who can retrieve the device, handle all the customs admin, provide packaging and return it to your home country. You’ll then need to find a place to store it, a vendor to sanitize, refurbish, and repackage it. All while manually tracking the device’s movements and multiple invoices.
That’s why we’ve cut all the faff out of storing and reusing your Hofy devices.
It takes a few seconds to offboard team members from the Hofy platform. Just confirm their details. Select their final day. And tell us what you want to do with their equipment. Which from today, includes the option to “Collect and store their device for reuse”.
Then leave all the heavy lifting to us. We’ll collect the device, manage the cleaning, wiping, and repackaging. So the device is fit and ready for reuse. And then store it for as long as you need, to support your hiring plans.
You’ll be able to see and manage all your stored devices on the Hofy platform, in one place. And easily reassign them to new employees on another continent in seconds.
When it comes to re-delivering the device, we can set it up with your organization’s preferred apps and software before shipping. So the device arrives ready-to-use, out of the box. In 10 working days or less. For a brilliant day one experience.
We’re building the infrastructure for global device reuse. Aka, you’ll be able to offboard team members anywhere in the world. Store their devices for as long as you need. And then teleport their devices - wiped, and ready for a fresh start - to new starters anywhere else in the world.
But going global takes time. And as we gear up for a full release, we’re launching a beta version of the service today; with collection available in over 53 countries, and re-delivery to anywhere in the UK, US or EEA. See the table below for more information.
See how effortless it is to deploy, manage, recover, and redeploy devices to distributed talent. All from one simple dashboard.
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