Can Employees Buy Their Work Laptops? Seeking Urgent Insights on Company Policies

Dear Colleagues,

Do any of your organizations have a policy wherein the employee can own the laptop he/she is using for official purposes? For example, we had a scheme where the employee could pay X amount of money over a period of 3 years and at the end of 3 years, could own the laptop.

Please respond soon as this is fairly urgent.

Regards,
Nancy

Nancy, it's not like that. It's like if I am using a laptop and it gets stolen after 3 years, then I need to only pay the value that is present after 3 years - the depreciated value, not the purchase price. Understood?

Dear Nancy,

There are many organizations where they help to purchase a laptop by providing X amount of interest-free money, which will be paid to the organization in monthly installments.

Regards,
Nikhil

Dear Nancy, this question looks interesting. How does a laptop loan work? Here are a few suggestions:

1. Form a laptop and data security policy and mention the clause of damage and stolen for laptops.

2. As Nikhil has suggested, you may consider the option of monthly deduction, but you need to take care of the tax deduction. How far this can be treated as a similar reimbursement such as a car loan needs to be cleared by the finance team. The bills and other purchases need to be produced for this amount to be made tax-free.

3. A sample policy with terms and conditions for laptop and data security has been mentioned in it.

https://www.citehr.com/40511-laptop-...#axzz17bk0lIzX

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I had doubts about the financial aspects of this arrangement; hence, I wrote to Avika, kannanmv, and niljoshi. Here's the reply from them. I truly appreciate their effort to offer a solution:

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