Business Continuity: Don’t Forget Employees


Written by Phil on July 22, 2010 in Business Continuity, survey.

Companies need to ensure that work doesn’t grind to a halt in a disaster.

We’ve had more than our fair share of disasters–both natural and manmade–in the last decade. In response, businesses have become a lot savvier about putting business continuity plans in place to safeguard systems and mission-critical infrastructure in the event of a disruption. That’s smart and imperative, but it’s also missing a key element: planning how employees will continue working and be productive during an unforeseen interruption that prevents them from going to the workplace, whether that’s a flu outbreak, severe weather or worse.

In a recent study of the 100 largest U.S. public technology companies by professional services firm BDO, natural disasters, wars, conflicts and terrorist attacks were ranked the top risk concern by respondents. At 55% of respondents, this was significantly higher than the 44% that cited breaches of technology security, privacy and theft as a concern. There are numerous stories out there about the negative effects that can result when a company is prevented from doing business. From lost customers, revenue and even business failure, the consequences can be severe.

See Business Continuity: Don’t Forget Employees, by Bernd Christiansen for Forbes.com.

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