So if you are agency and let go, but working from home, they don't expect you to drive in and return monitors and laptops? Does your agency rep come pick them up?
Any sign that your agencies are working to find you something new?
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You can always take it to the north entrance of WHQ. From now until January 7th, they have curbside service for IT equipment return for all the retirees, so you don't even have to get out of your car.
The agencies can do NOTHING to "find" a job for you. They can assist you in sending resumes out. The big misconception is that the agency will "just" find you a new job. They have NO say in who gets hired. Also, a position posted at a company will have MULTIPLE agencies competing to put someone in the position. Agencies make money by taking liability away from the hiring company, not by placing people in jobs.
I left a few months ago from a FTE position and the process was drive to the office and drop it all off. Ford probably doesn't have the ability to account for every piece of equipment you're "borrowing" from them for WFH, but being caught with IP/resources from your previous company isn't something you want to explain at a new job. IP/trade secrets in particular.
whelp, it depends...
how did you procure the equipment in the first place?
Was it mailed to your home?
Or, did you get it 'in-person' when you were in the office?
Simply 'return' the equipment in the same manner.
And, if by chance, they forget to ASK for their stuff back.... then consider it your defacto 'severance' package :]
Your post comes timely for me. I was part of the 2019 SRD. I took a job in St. Louis, keeping my home in MI, and maintaining an apt there. When the coronavirus hit I worked from my apartment but a family emergency brought me back 'home' to MI where I worked from there. Not going into details of how bad the job was (think sweatshop - mandatory 12 hour days, 100% on-call and no days off for 9 months), I quit on Oct 30.
I have been in a pissing match ever since on returning my equipment. The company refuses to provide me an account number so the equipment can be packaged up. The cost is around $50 which I refuse to spend MY money on.