Disaster Recovery: The Human Element – Prepare Your Staff To Deal With Crisis
Written by Phil on December 8, 2009 in Business Continuity.
Given enough time, disaster will eventually strike every company. If and when “the worst” happens, whatever it is, the organization is almost bound to have a staffing problem. Any event big enough to take down an enterprise facility may also be big enough to impact the entire region, including employees’ family and friends.
In a time of crisis, enterprises have more to worry about than their physical infrastructures; they also have to worry about their people and whether employees will be able to support the company.
Key Points
- Companies may benefit by offering employees additional assistance in the wake of a disaster, including extra health care and stipends. Such benefits can pay long-term dividends in workforce loyalty and willingness to return to work earlier than might have been otherwise seen.
- Carefully assess the distance of a failover site and how that site can be staffed during a disaster, both physically and via remote management, and have support in place for both approaches.
- Staging disaster simulations can expose an organization’s weaknesses and help develop more effective DR staffing strategies.
See Disaster Recovery: The Human Element – Prepare Your Staff To Deal With Crisis, by William Van Winkle for Processor.com.
Tags: employee assistance, employees, human element, workforce, workplace continuity
