If you really own the company, what you do with it is your business. If you are working for someone else, moving data to your own home is potentially unethical and an option of last resort after you've presented better options for data archiving. The instance for the source article is a former admin was the one who wiped all the data. So the better question is, at your company, are you alone completely capable of wiping all of your data, backups, and archiving? What is the company's procedure for data security if you leave or are terminated? This wasn't a regular employee, it was an admin with access privileges which weren't revoked in time, or had set up a killswitch prior to leaving. It's not the first time it's happened, and won't be the last. So for me, while I'd like to hire someone I could trust to house the data at his own home, but even better, I'd prefer to hire someone who would tell me the reasons why it isn't a good idea.