Twitter has been slow to collect corporate laptops back from fired workers

If I ever get canned with company equipment at home, I won't even box it up for them without compensation.

They're either sending someone to my door to pick it up unboxed, or paying for my time returning it.

Theoretically, the company could file a police report regarding stolen property. Obv this doesn't scale, and the mismanagement of the layoff created enough chaos to make proving that a former employee has company property is doubtful. The laid off employees did not even get instructions regarding returning company property, so attempts to recover that equipment before any such instructions are provided would draw even more lawsuits. The person who knows where all this gear is located is probably long gone. The Germans have a word for Twitter management competency: Schlamperei.

I've seen quite a few overfunded startups lose track of a high fraction of the macbooks they buy.

A better managed Twitter before the new management change would have entered a leasing arrangement for corporate laptops and leave out the not core focus of attention.