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I see this as a case of: "see, allowing wfh would have saved you there."

• skissane 3y ago
  From what I was told, WFH and people starting late actually really helped, in that there were only a handful of people physically in the office when it happened. But apparently the server with the source code on it was in it too. I don’t know if they forgot about off-site backups entirely, or if they thought they had them but only discovered they were incomplete or faulty afterwards I don't know what the practice was at that time, but some years later, people weren't allowed to have the source on their laptops, they had to SSH/RDP/etc in to a hosted development system to work on it, which might explain how losing the office resulted in losing the source code even with people doing WFH
• bluGill 3y ago
  No it wouldn't have - 2001 was 4 years before distributed version control. Work from home might have had current copies of some branches checked out on local machines, but nobody would have had full history or code from release branches on their machine.