Decommission guide · Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley office decommissions: turning surplus furniture into ROI
How Bay Area tech companies recover value from surplus office furniture instead of paying to dump it.
By Brandi Susewitz · July 2, 2026 · 5 min read
~20 cents
On the dollar, typical second-life value
Zero
Landfill is the goal on every plan
50-70%
Below retail for second-life buyers
15-20 yrs
Typical commercial furniture lifespan
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley companies turn surplus office furniture into ROI by inventorying it, reselling desirable pieces at market value, and letting that recovery offset removal cost. A large decommission can pay for itself instead of becoming a disposal bill.
From San Jose and Santa Clara to Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Palo Alto, tech campuses reconfigure constantly. Each refit produces high quality surplus, and most of it is worth real money.
Why is tech office furniture worth reselling?
Because it is good. Task chairs and workstations from Steelcase and MillerKnoll are engineered to last 15 to 20 years and hold roughly 20 cents on the dollar in resale. A three year old campus refresh is a marketplace, not a waste stream.
From surplus to recovered value
- Inventory every asset and assign it a RESEAT ID.
- Resell in-demand pieces through the marketplace at 50 to 70% below retail for buyers.
- Redeploy usable stock to other sites to avoid buying new.
- Donate or recycle the remainder, with full documentation.
“Every workstation reused is one less workstation manufactured.”
The reporting tech ESG teams expect
Bay Area sustainability teams need proof, not promises. RESEAT documents where each asset went and the estimated CO₂e avoided, which feeds directly into Scope 3 and ESG reporting.
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