Certainly probably costs more in 'helpdesk' time to collect them, make sure the employee returned all their employer supplied chargers, docks, etc and get them

Certainly probably costs more in 'helpdesk' time to collect them, make sure the employee returned all their employer supplied chargers, docks, etc and get them reimaged and back into rotation than it would cost to replace. As someone that went through a similar 'just keep it' event. My personal laptop was already better, but my sister's sure as shit wasn't.