Empower employees with the Microsoft Workplace Discount Programme

Give your employees discounts on selected Microsoft 365 subscriptions with the Workplace Discount Programme (formerly the Home Use Programme) and help provide them with professional tools for personal projects.

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What is the Workplace Discount Programme?

The Workplace Discount Programme is an employee purchase programme for Microsoft’s valued customers. It offers selected Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscriptions at a discounted rate through your company. 

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Get more from Microsoft with the Workplace Discount Programme

The Workplace Discount Programme helps your employees become more proficient and productive with Microsoft 365 at home – increasing employee satisfaction while lowering the need and cost of IT help and training.

Empower employees with the Workplace Discount Programme

The Workplace Discount Programme gives employees the opportunity to own and use Microsoft products. Skill and experience grow from personal use and translate to higher productivity, satisfaction and savings for your company.

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IT admins

Sign in to the Workplace Discount Programme page with your admin account to learn more about the programme and get more resources.

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Frequently asked questions

The Workplace Discount Programme is an employee purchase programme designed for Microsoft's valued customers and offered through your company. It enables employees to purchase an annual subscription of Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Personal at a discount for use on personal devices.
For employees to take advantage of the Workplace Discount Programme pricing, they need a valid corporate email address and an active Microsoft account, and the organisation will need to meet one of the following criteria:
- Customers who have active Software Assurance for qualifying Office applications.
- Customers who have Microsoft 365/Microsoft 365 E3/E5 from Software Assurance.
- Commercial and government customers who have purchased 2,000 licences or more of one or a mix of Microsoft 365 E3 or E5.
- Commercial and government customers who have spent $250,000 USD or more in the previous 12 months on eligible Power BI, Office, Surface devices and accessories, Windows and Enterprise Mobility.
- Education and non-profit customers.
To qualify for the Workplace Discount Programme, employees must work at a company that qualifies for the Workplace Discount Programme and have a corporate email address. To verify your company’s eligibility, direct your company’s IT administrator to the Microsoft 365 Admin Centre. From here, the IT administrator can verify whether your company is eligible for the Workplace Discount Programme and set up the benefit for your employees.
IT administrators can find details about how to administer and manage Workplace Discount Programme benefits for employees by reviewing Admin FAQs or the Software Assurance FAQs.
The Workplace Discount Programme offers a 30% discount on Microsoft 365 Family or Personal annual subscription for use at home.
For employees who qualify for the Microsoft 365 subscription offer and have purchased through the programme, the discounted price applies for as long as the employee’s subscription remains active, regardless of their employment status with your organisation.
Please direct your employees to these Workplace Discount Programme FAQs for detailed information about what’s included, how to purchase software and how to download and manage subscriptions.
The Workplace Discount Programme offers discounts on annual subscriptions of Microsoft 365 Personal and Family, which are always up to date with the latest versions of Microsoft 365 apps across all your devices.