For an individual, this is absolutely worth it. The problem is corporate/education IT departments do not operate on the same economics as you or I. You'd think

For an individual, this is absolutely worth it. The problem is corporate/education IT departments do not operate on the same economics as you or I. You'd think that you can just multiply 60 laptops by their value as "for parts" versus their value as used, properly reset devices minus the intern's hourly rate. Clever you, you've found a way to make money! But big corporations don't think that way, they already know how their bread is buttered and don't have flexible processes in place to reward the elimination of inefficiencies or creative discovery of new income sources. I've bought a number of used Thinkpads, laser printers/copiers, workstations, etc. that were previously owned by big companies. They don't go through the wiping process. If it has a removable drive caddy the whole thing comes out and goes in the trash, and you need to find a spare part that costs as much as the whole used laptop if a lookalike isn't available. They don't care whether the BIOS is locked, that doesn't have their data on it. The intern saddled with unloading the pallet of old laptops is never going to see any of that hypothetical $500-$1500. And who would ever give an intern the local admin password to run erase assistant, potentially letting them decrypt the data of a senior employee previously logged into the Mac, just before covering their tracks by deleting the access logs?