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What is a term for an item that is in use at the office and at 'home', not at use while in transit but never lives permanently at either?

I am trying to develop an idea for an office asset/item tracker, and one of the requirements is to track the item's location. To stop users continually updating the details when they are working in the office or at home, I would like a category of 'Location' that represents something like a work laptop that is likely wherever you are working from but does not have a permanent location like the office or home.

Note: I believe that it is valuable to have this category as it is likely that the people who may look at the reports could deem that two binary locations of in/out of the office are too broad. I am trying to preempt this but want to avoid having 1000 meaningless categories like my house, my bag, etc. Note: The asset tracker only really cares if the items are in the office or not in the office, but I wish to give users more flexibility and therefore provide a few as possible options but make each one as valuable as possible.

Clarification: Stuart F and Xanne make an excellent observation, "Never used in transit" was misleading, and I have removed it from the title. I meant that it is not essential to track items in transit as a transit category explicitly/implicitly requires the user to update the status once said transit has finished. So far, I believe Stuart F is the closest with Mobile, thanks Stuart F!

What is a term for an item that is in use at the office and at 'home', not at use while in transit but never lives permanently at either?

I am trying to develop an idea for an office asset/item tracker, and one of the requirements is to track the item's location. To stop users continually updating the details when they are working in the office or at home, I would like a category of 'Location' that represents something like a work laptop that is likely wherever you are working from but does not have a permanent location like the office or home.

Note: I believe that it is valuable to have this category as it is likely that the people who may look at the reports could deem that two binary locations of in/out of the office are too broad. I am trying to preempt this but want to avoid having 1000 meaningless categories like my house, my bag, etc. Note: The asset tracker only really cares if the items are in the office or not in the office, but I wish to give users more flexibility and therefore provide a few as possible options but make each one as valuable as possible.

What is a term for an item that is in use at the office and at 'home', but never lives permanently at either?

I am trying to develop an idea for an office asset/item tracker, and one of the requirements is to track the item's location. To stop users continually updating the details when they are working in the office or at home, I would like a category of 'Location' that represents something like a work laptop that is likely wherever you are working from but does not have a permanent location like the office or home.

Note: I believe that it is valuable to have this category as it is likely that the people who may look at the reports could deem that two binary locations of in/out of the office are too broad. I am trying to preempt this but want to avoid having 1000 meaningless categories like my house, my bag, etc. Note: The asset tracker only really cares if the items are in the office or not in the office, but I wish to give users more flexibility and therefore provide a few as possible options but make each one as valuable as possible.

Clarification: Stuart F and Xanne make an excellent observation, "Never used in transit" was misleading, and I have removed it from the title. I meant that it is not essential to track items in transit as a transit category explicitly/implicitly requires the user to update the status once said transit has finished. So far, I believe Stuart F is the closest with Mobile, thanks Stuart F!

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What is a term for an item that is in use at the office and at 'home', not at use while in transit but never lives permanently at either?

I am trying to develop an idea for an office asset/item tracker, and one of the requirements is to track the item's location. To stop users continually updating the details when they are working in the office or at home, I would like a category of 'Location' that represents something like a work laptop that is likely wherever you are working from but does not have a permanent location like the office or home.

Note: I believe that it is valuable to have this category as it is likely that the people who may look at the reports could deem that two binary locations of in/out of the office are too broad. I am trying to preempt this but want to avoid having 1000 meaningless categories like my house, my bag, etc. Note: The asset tracker only really cares if the items are in the office or not in the office, but I wish to give users more flexibility and therefore provide a few as possible options but make each one as valuable as possible.