Help convince CTO desktop peripheral are consumables and not assets to be tagged

[u/No-Barber964]

Our company has been asset tagging everything at a desk to ensure that we can control the full lifecycle of hardware from procurement to disposal.

I’m trying to shift our process for the desk level hardware to only tag monitors as an asset and make keyboards/mouse, webcam, docking stations as consumables that we wouldn’t asset tag and only classify as consumables to track inventory levels

Our cto is consented we will loose visibility into where things are going and why we have to continually purchase more hardware when the firm isn’t growing

Any advice ?

Edit.. to add more context on the dollar amount of each model as many are saying to set a $ threshold

Monitor - $350 Headset - $250 Webcam- $160 Docking station - $100 Keyboard/mouse - $60

[u/Geno0wl]

...you replace keyboard and mice when people change positions? we just like...clean them.

[u/ozzie286 → u/Geno0wl]

You clean them?

[u/Randalldeflagg → u/ozzie286]

This how we clean them: 1) Into the IT recycle pile that gets picked up once a quarter. 2) Issue new unused keyboard, mouse, headphones. 3) Profit/Loss?

I've seen me eat at my desk, Yeah, no. user get new equipment for the things they will touch daily.

[u/LOLBaltSS → u/Randalldeflagg]

I worked at a place that let people chew tobacco, so many spit cups.

[u/Geno0wl → u/LOLBaltSS]

My previous boss used to use chewing tobacco constantly. He also used to drink multiple cups of coffee every day from this certain local place. That is relevant because he used to use his empty cups for the spit while also drinking a fresh cup, frequently right next to his spit cup. And yes if you guessed he would accidentally "drink" from the spit cup occasionally then take a prize. Somehow that gross thing didn't deter his daily routine though....