For new hires

When you start, MUI allows you to pick your work equipment with a relatively large degree of freedom. You get some guidelines and an allowance you can spend Allowances.

This budget can be used for a new laptop, screen, desk, or anything that will improve your work environment to be a high performer in your role What can I expense?

How to use the fund?

New hires should follow the same steps as in How to use the fund? but with some exceptions:

• You don’t need to ask for confirmation from your manager to spend over $1,000 on a laptop. As a new hire, having a great laptop is the #1 need. (To be clear, if the policy asks to validate the laptop model, you would still need to do it).

Budget available

Tracking

We use one spreadsheet to keep track of the budget that you have left available https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wt6T0HVHsMebn2ClA0HsBawfe6CAh4XKK5PDuOzmSC0/edit#gid=0.

The balance row describes how much budget you have available, assuming that you “borrow” the maximum monthly allowance for 28 months in the future.

<aside> ℹ️ Please note that for equipment that MUI owns, it's not possible to partially reimburse an item. We need invoices or receipts for the whole item.

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Allowances

Baseline allowance

For all roles, we have a baseline of $72/month. People can use this credit for up to 28 months in the future. So effectively, you have an initial grant of 2,016 USD (= 72 * 28).

Type name: baseline.

Role-based allowance

• Product, design, and engineering-related roles (e.g., Design Engineer). They require more expensive hardware. So have an extra $38/month. So, effectively, added to the baseline, you have an initial grant of 3,080 USD (= (72 + 38) * 28).

  Type name: engineering.

Special allowance

Unlike the regular allowance, special ones have more restrictions: