I used to run an all-remote engineering team and even though we had the right personnel in place, it still often ended up that for anything short of a new top-of-the-line device, it would be left with a departing employee as a gift because the cost of shipping and paying import duties to get it to the next most logical person in line to have possession of the device was often more than the value of the device itself.
Even for high-value hardware that might have been financially worth reclaiming at the end of someone's employment, there was always a buyout clause in their hardware issuance agreement and we encouraged people to use it if they liked their laptop. We _really_ didn't want the gear back most of the time.