I have so much extra server space at work that I would really love to spin up a VM or two and run a witness, but I don't think my work would appreciate the bandwidth that it would take. There is a good chance I would be called out about the traffic and I wouldn't really be able to justify it.
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I don't think you should risk it at work... The earnings below top 20 are nowhere near justifying even the minimal risk of doing something like that. The bandwidth is actually quite minimal, what it takes is a lot of fast storage and ideally good CPU. You can run a regular witness at home and you will not notice any load if you have a fast and reliable connection.
Oh really, that might be an option. I have an M2 Mac Mini that basically sits un-used in my basement. I was using it as a PLEX server for a while, but I haven't kept it on lately. I have three or four servers at work that are all decked out running Hyper-V. Recently moved away from VMWare after the Broadcom crap show. I have our infrastructure running on them and still have a ton of RAM, cores, and storage space available on all of the hardware. Like you said though, probably not worth it. Besides the questions it might raise, it is likely a bit unethical.
Don't know much about Macs, can they run Linux? I am running my witness on Ubuntu Linux 22.04 with 64GB Ram and 2 TB SSD space. But you can easily get away with 32 Gig of RAM and 1 TB SSD maybe even less if you run the latest software with the new rolling block log feature. Here is what you need: https://ecency.com/witness/@themarkymark/setup-a-hive-witness-using-the-new-rolling-block-log-feature-jte
Mac OS X that they rolled out a couple of decades ago is built mostly on Unix, so I don't think it would take too much to make it work. I'm not sure that Mac Mini has the specs I need though. I will have to look into it sometime.