Responsible IT asset disposition helps protect the environment from the toxic chemicals of e-waste. Rather than throwing old electronics in the trash where they may end up in landfills, ITAD enterprises like HOBI collect retired IT assets and ensure they are correctly processed via electronics recycling. Proper IT asset disposition has become increasingly critical in keeping electronics out of the waste stream, but as technology evolves, so does the ITAD industry.
Traditionally, the core services of IT asset disposition have included logistics, data sanitization, certification, onsite services, and more. However, as the digital landscape evolves, clients’ needs become more sophisticated. The ITAD industry is evolving to include a new list of criteria and expectations to meet these needs with value-added IT asset disposition, or vITAD, a term pioneered by HOBI to describe the industry changes.
vITAD consists of several additional facets of the industry that support services clients now require, including support for remote workers, R2v3 certification, robust ERP, data privacy, and ESG reporting.
Since the pandemic, remote work is more common, and many companies have gone fully remote. Now, vITAD providers are adjusting service offerings to support remote clients. ESG reporting has also become a sought-after service offering as companies become more aware of their carbon footprint. ESG reporting enables a business to provide transparency and accountability for sustainability goals.
Each of these vITAD service offerings can benefit an enterprise in several ways. Support for remote workers enables an organization to continue serving remote clients and can help an enterprise achieve ESG social and environmental goals by helping their community recycle e-waste. ESG reporting helps foster compliance and provides accountability in the workplace.
These new vITAD criteria represent a change in industry standards as more businesses strive to reduce their carbon footprint, and IT asset management and disposition become increasingly important. HOBI is a committed IT asset management and disposition enterprise focusing on maximizing economic return and mitigating potential environmental liability.
HOBI implements vITAD criteria in all of our service offerings, including data security and erasure services, the remote box program for remote workers, fully transparent and traceable reverse logistics services, refurbishment and remarketing opportunities, and our R2v3, RIOS, and ISO 14001 certifications.
For more information about our ITAD services, call 817-814-2620 or contact HOBI at sales@hobi.com.