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Draft: Add equipment supporting health and well-being to the list of Equipment

Oliver Falk requested to merge ofalk-proposal-health-and-well-being-equipment into master

Why is this change being made?

Questions about equipment supporting our team with health and well-being, such as anti-fatigue standing mats, gymnastic balls or treadmills (used to be expensed, but it seems there is uncertainty if or if not it's still allowed) and similar items, keep popping up.

I believe supporting the team with items like these is important, hence I like to transparently propose this change and collaborate on the exact wording and clarity on the policy. The list is definitely not an exhaustive list of items; Let's keep iterating over it.

Adding @spatching as reviewer to this MR, since we were discussing this recently

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