For enterprises of all sizes, the current global pandemic is resulting in new spend behaviors. In fact, Oversight’s recent Spend Insights Report uncovered some key changes, including that out-of-pocket spend increased 17% from April to May as employees without a corporate card filed COVID-related expenses.
Spend changes such as these are leading organizations to rethink their business practices and policies. In fact, the shift to remote work has been a key driver of employers pivoting from their normal allowances to accommodate home office setups and supplies.
But this comes with inherent risk. For example, Oversight customers have seen everything from big-screen TVs to soundbars expensed as work from home necessities. One employee even expensed $7,000 for a home office setup.
Oversight’s VP of Product Management, Jon Lawrence, recently shared five key lessons for those organizations evaluating new arenas for spend risk as a result of COVID-19:
To read more about the impact of the pandemic on employee spend behaviors, read the full article at Risk Management, and for more information about how Oversight helps identify spend risk, request a Spend Risk Analysis.
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