Short answer: send the employee a prepaid, pre-addressed return kit as soon as offboarding starts, track the return, wipe or destroy the data when the device arrives, and either redeploy it or resell it. A depot partner can run the whole loop so IT does not have to chase devices one by one.
Devices sit in home offices after an employee leaves. Every unreturned laptop is a data risk and a lost asset. Shipping boxes one at a time eats IT hours, and without a record of what came back, nobody can reconcile the inventory.
Our box program handles distributed staff in the office, in the field and at home. Device Depot then stores, wipes, repairs and redeploys devices, and resells the ones you retire. You get serial-level intake reporting and a Certificate of Destruction for every wiped or destroyed drive.
Typically the employer or its ITAD partner. Prepaid kits get much higher return rates than asking employees to find a box.
After the device arrives and is checked in, before it is redeployed or resold.
Yes. After a certified wipe and any repairs, they can be reimaged and sent to new hires.