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Why and how we are so confident that the employees will respond on a call for BCP leaving their homes ?
In almost every BCP plans, we presuppose the appropriate staff attendance and their availability for movement, which is the most unlikely to happen. The function normality of a BCP is strictly connected with the crew sufficiency.
Asked by SF1966
Posted in Switching Sectors and Operations
13 Jun 2008
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You are right to wonder about this. Everything BCP related is a big guess and leap of faith. Given that you don’t know what crisis you are planning for the questions are endless and unanswerable. Will the phone system work? Will there be electricity? Will employees be able to get there? Assumptions have to be made, planning for every contingency you can think of. Responding to your specific question, you need to make it as easy as possible for staff to get to BCP. Best ideas I can think of are to have your BCP site close enough to your office that people could walk from work in a crisis but yet far enough that it is on a different power network won’t be affected if something happens to your building. So say 2 ish miles away? Or else to put your BCP in a residential area where many of your staff may live and then just work with whatever staff actually turn up at BCP.
former MD at a major US investment bank 13 Jun 2008
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