Onboarding

When you start, MUI lets you, mostly, choose the work equipment of your choice. You get some guidelines and a budget you can spend. The budget can be used for a new laptop, screen, desk, or anything that improves your work environment to perform in your role.

Regular allowance

All roles

A baseline of $72/month. People can use this credit for up to 24 months in the future. So effectively to have an initial grant of up to 1,800 USD (= 72 * 25).

Depending on the role

• Product, design, and engineering-related roles (e.g., dev rel, design engineer). They require more expensive hardware. So have an extra $38/month. So, effectively, to have an initial grant of up to 2,750 USD (= (72 + 38) * 25) when added to the baseline.

Special allowance

Unlike the regular allowance, special ones have more restrictions:

• For design-related roles, they require high-quality screens (e.g., Design Engineer, Designer): give an initial grant, with a 2.5-year deprecation window (instead of 2 years for the rest, as a great screen can be kept a lot longer), to buy one of: Examples of great screens:

Tax

• Employee MUI-owned equipment

  VAT is not supposed to be paid by businesses; MUI can recoup it. So if you are purchasing the equipment on behalf of MUI, add MUI’s VAT ‣ to the order so that only the cost is deducted from your budget.

  In some cases though, MUI cannot recoup VAT because EoRs like Deel require employees to list their local entity details on the invoice (depending on the country). Please be sure to double check Deel’s requirements for your country before making a purchase.

• Contractor-owned equipment

  If you are purchasing on your behalf and can recoup the tax (e.g., sales tax, GST, VAT), only forward the without-tax cost to MUI.

What can I expense?

If you're not sure if something can be expensed, confirm with your manager before purchasing. In general, the stipend covers:

1. Laptop
2. Monitors
3. Desk or chair
4. Ergonomic keyboard, mouse, or other accessories
5. Monitor arms or clamps