I work for a startup that has remote employees across Canada. As part of our onboarding process, we send computers to our employees to help them work remotely. However, we currently don't have a process in place for picking up these computers when an employee leaves the company.<p>We're looking for a service that can go to the person's house, pack up the computer, and deliver it to another location. We're looking for recommendations for services that operate in Canada and can handle this process for us. Ideally, they would handle all of that, including packing, to reduce the faff on the individuals.<p>This seems like a service that must exist, as we're not the only remote firm, but I can't find anything. What does everyone else do?
For us (also remote only in Canada, though there are offices in other countries), we just use Fedex, IT generates a shipping label, we package up the machine, print the label from IT and drop it off with Fedex (most Staples I would think), easy peasy.<p>I think you can get the mailers from the Fedex location (but for my recent laptop upgrade, I just re-used the one the new machine came in).
Silly question, but what happens to the device once it has been retrieved? Is it recycled for another employee, re-sold to a systems refurbisher, etc.?<p>In theory, the terminus (as far as your company is concerned) should determine the retrieval mechanism.