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For those working with remote workers, do you just ask them to buy their equipment on Amazon and you pay for the expenses?

Written by Mia Scott

Updated over 5 years ago

You can give people an option of you buying them a laptop that they have to return or you can give them an allowance that they can use to buy a new computer or just pocket it.

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