Employee Communication Fails After Storms

After a devastating disaster like a hurricane, many companies find it can be at least three to five days before they know where all their employees are and how well they survived the disaster. Can your company afford to lose that time?

According to an article by Kathy Gurchiek on the Society for Human Resource Management website, while communication “is an element of disaster planning often taken for granted,” companies need to ensure good communication with their employees when disasters such as hurricanes hit.

The problem, she says, is that both cell phones and local landline telephone services can be disrupted after disaster, which is why it becomes so difficult to locate and communicate with employees. Instead, companies need to have a plan in place to establish communication with their employees after a disaster.

But according to a recent survey at the annual conference of the Association for Financial Professionals, two-thirds of finance professionals doubt their organizations are prepared to handle such an event.

To read the full article, click here:  http://www.shrm.org/hrnews_published/articles/CMS_014419.asp