In any organisation, a company will assign not only devices but licenses for software to certain users or employees. By doing so, you give access to the necessary software or company information to the employee or member of staff who needs it in order to carry out their role. Not only can you track information with regards to who has access but you can essentially pay for who needs it and save money by not paying for those who don’t.

The question is, what happens when devices become unused? Devices can become unused for any number of reason. They become out of date, they become unneeded or the employee in question leaves the company.

When this happens, to help your company save costs, you can reassign unused licenses and unused devices to another person within your workforce. This is a great way of avoiding extra costs, however for it to work, quality asset management needs to be in place, with regular IT estate verification.

Without this, your company will, like thousands of other businesses out there, fall into the trap of double purchasing – increasing costs when not necessary.

COVID changed our lives and turned them upside down, approximately one year ago. Businesses up and down the UK found their entire workforce, or at the very least a large chunk of them, being made to work from home and quite rightly so. In doing this however, the vast majority of multiple business’s IT assets went with those workers in order to allow them to carry out their jobs from home. For some, this happened within hours.

Fast forward 12 months and now a great deal of company’s have found themselves with huge discrepancies in their IT asset register, asking themselves, “do we really know what IT equipment is really at people’s homes?”