Are there security or hardware management issues that would require a policy of setting displays to never sleep? [closed]

At my current employer, there is a policy that is pushed out daily that includes a setting that forces the display on the computer to never go into sleep mode (on Mac that is System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Turn Display Off After, and I forget the exact name in Windows, but also under energy settings). I have experienced this on both the Windows platform and the Mac platform leading me to conclude that this was an intentional decision. Note that I am talking about having the monitor go into a power-saving, display off mode, not locking the screen, which is (sensibly) set to a small number of minutes.

Are there specific security or hardware management issues in Windows or Mac OS X that would require forcing a monitor to always remain powered on (albeit with a screen saver running)? My own experience suggests that allowing the screen to power down does not interfere with properly locking the system either manually or via the screensaver timeout setting.

Solution 1:

Consider the following:

• If the PC never goes to sleep, then it is always accessible for things like network scans/automated updates/remote management. There are better ways to handle this, but keeping the PC on is easy.

• There are kiosk or shared machines that need to stay on all the time, and it was easier to apply the policy to all PCs.

• Convenience: Some VIP got really tired of waking up his/her computer and demanded all computers stay on all the time.

• Make some extra cash mining crypto off-hours

There's no way to know why your company did it except to ask around. I've never seen it myself, but I found people asking how, so there's a need out there.