Update handbook expense limit for monitors
Why is this change being made?
The average price of the monitor of $380 is pretty low, even for a budget monitor. Since we rate monitors as a 10/10 importance for home office workspaces, this is being updated to a more reasonable number of $600 to accommodate the current industry prices for 4K and ultra-wide monitors that many team members buy today.
Since the original budget assumed that most team members used dual monitors and ultra-wide monitors replace 2 monitors, this adds the change that you can expense double the amount for ultra-wide monitors.
4K Prices
- Dell 27" U2720Q $619-779
- Dell 32" U3219Q $864-1,149
Ultra-wide Prices
- Dell 34" P3421W $654-$859 USD - US
- Dell 34" U3421W $929 to $1,159 USD - US
- Dell 38" U3821DW $1,229 to $1,539 USD - US
- Dell 49" U4919DW $1,249 to $1,559 USD - US
- Dell 40" 5K U4021QW $1,679 to $2,099 USD - US
- LG 34" 34WL85C-B $799 USD - US
- LG 38" 38UC99-W $1099 USD - US
- LG 38" 38WN95C-W $1599 USD - US
- LG 49" 49WL95C-WE $1499 USD - US
Examples:
- https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/workspace/#monitors
- https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/monitors-monitor-accessories/ar/4009?appliedRefinements=2542
- https://dnsmichi.at/2020/04/28/first-time-all-remote-my-new-workspace-feat-standing-desk-and-curved-monitor/
This is an actionable follow up from a brief Slack discussion.
https://gitlab.slack.com/archives/C012ALM8P29/p1614286602043600
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Edited by Jeff Martin