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 $70/month. People can use this credit for up to 24 months in the future. So effectively to have an initial grant of up to 1,750 USD (= 70 * 25).

Depending on the role

• Product, design, and engineering-related roles (e.g. dev rel, design engineer). They require more expensive hardware. an extra $40/month. So effectively to have an initial grant of up to 2,750 USD (= (70 + 40) * 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 3-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 the MUI’s VAT ‣ to the order so that only the without-tax cost is deducted from your budget.

• 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