Anybody ever manage equipment return programs? Are there compelling reasons to do this at scale that don’t boil down to data loss prevention.
In returning the equipment it actually protects the employee from compromise by creating a chain of custody for corporate data.
Sounds counterintuitive but it’s not. If the equipment needs to be destroyed — and it often is — it can be done properly.
People have no idea how easy it is to recover data from a single formatted drive.
Letting the former employee keep the laptop is the default, IMO. Although, frankly, I am not sure I would want to keep mine... sitting on a pile of a dozen laptops accumulated over the years.
And everyone watches porn on their on own devices anyway.
low power consumption and can probably run a couple of VMs, albeit not super well but well enough