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If you have more devices than active employees — which describes almost every company after its first offboarding — then yes. Storage is what makes the rest of the lifecycle work: returned devices need somewhere secure to be wiped and graded before redeployment, buffer stock is what lets a new hire be equipped in days instead of procurement lead times, and “the office cupboard” or an ex-manager's garage is where laptops go to disappear. The alternative to deliberate storage isn't no storage; it's untracked storage.

Commercial IT device storage in 2026 is typically priced per asset per month, with rates varying by item category (a laptop costs far less to store than a desk or monitor) and by region, plus one-off handling fees when items go in or out of the warehouse. For a laptop fleet, storage usually works out to a small monthly fee per device — minor next to the cost of replacing hardware that vanished from informal storage. For exact rates across the countries you need, request a quote or rate card from your provider.

Yes, and it's one of the most-used parts of the platform. Returned devices are wiped, graded, and held as your stock; new hardware can be ordered directly into a warehouse as buffer stock; and when a hire starts, the device ships from the nearest warehouse — typically reaching employees in a few working days, already configured. You see your full stock position across all locations in real time. Book a free 30-minute demo at goworkwize.com/demo to see the inventory view with your device mix.

Yes. Workwize stores spare and returned devices in its warehouses, billed per asset per month, so idle hardware sits in tracked, insured storage instead of depreciating in someone's home. Each stored item is individually serialized and visible in your inventory, ready to deploy when you need it. Storage includes insurance, and you pay only for the specific items held, not for shelf space.

Devices are held in secure local warehouses across Workwize's network — spanning the EU, UK, US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India, Australia, Singapore, South Africa, the Philippines, and Costa Rica. Inbound assets go through a standardized intake: contents check, damage inspection with condition grading, certified data wipe, then storage under your company's stock with real-time inventory visibility in the platform. From there, stored devices ship out to new hires or offices on request, and you can also order new hardware straight into a warehouse as buffer stock.

Yes. Workwize warehouses store the full range of IT equipment: laptops, desktops, phones, and tablets, larger items like monitors and printers, accessories such as docks, keyboards, and headsets — and even office furniture like desks and chairs. Everything is inspected and logged at intake, tracked as your stock in real time, and available to ship out to an employee or office whenever needed, so bulkier equipment doesn't have to live in someone's spare room between uses.

Because the fundamentals of inventory management assume you can walk up and count things — and with remote employees, you can't. Devices sit in hundreds of homes across time zones; their condition drifts invisibly; records depend on people self-reporting; and recovery depends on someone who no longer works for you cooperating with a courier. Spreadsheets decay within months under those conditions. What works instead: a register updated by actual logistics events (shipped, delivered, returned, wiped) rather than manual edits, plus a retrieval process that starts automatically — which is essentially the problem Workwize was built around.

Yes. Returned devices are retrieved to a warehouse, inspected, graded, and securely wiped, then held in stock ready to redeploy to your next hire. Reusing this pool directly reduces how many new laptops you buy. You control whether a wiped device goes back into rotation or is resold or recycled, all tracked in the platform.