We are currently considering altering some of our employee contracts so that their base becomes home or a combination of home and the office, on a permanent basis (rather than the current office based location) and am wondering whether to pay them a one off payment for equipment and other out of pocket expenses. It would be useful to see what other employers are doing in this respect.
We want to be able to change the employee location via collective agreement if at all possible, so this will have an impact on the ability to claim tax relief from the HMRC.
Thanks, Lynn
We are looking into this too. I guess some of your decisions will be influenced by whether you are asking to change contracts, or the employee is; are you "forcing" them, or are they volunteering? Our focus is less on home office equipment than on the impact on salary ranges from not working in central London, and making clear whay travel expenses are claimable for max 2 days p/w travel into the office. Training costs should reduce but people may no longer benefit from subsidised tea, coffee or lunch...
we're not moving locations permanently. We've given budget of c£150pp for chairs/monitors. But perm moves to home working would need more. And there would be ongoing costs/obligs as employer still needs to provide a suitable work environment.
Hi - we set a figure of approx USD 500 towards home office equipment (chair & desk) for perm home locations, and any IT peripherals are ordered internally per usual process.