Archive for the ‘flexible working’ Category

Business Continuity Manager Is On Holiday. What’s Your Back Up Plan?

Wednesday, July 21st, 2010

The holiday season is here and between now and September many of your staff will be off for one or two weeks at a time, including your business continuity manager, IT and Telecoms managers and key senior staff.

If all were to be off at the same time and a major disruption happened to your organisation’s building, who would be in charge of the business continuity plans and would they know how to keep the business operational? (more…)

Telecoms Resilience: Keeping Going, Not Just Recovery

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Do the majority of people understand that telecoms resilience is about keeping a company’s communication channels always open, rather than simply trying to recover them when it all goes wrong? (more…)

Flexible Working Top Of The List For Britons To Stop Taking ‘Sickies’

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Flexible working came top of the list of the 5 things that would encourage Brits to take less time off work.
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Will you embrace government incentives for flexible working?

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Will organisations embrace new government incentives for introducing flexible working? (more…)

Business Interruptions: SMEs Losing Money, But It’s Avoidable!

Friday, July 9th, 2010

Many small businesses are losing revenue unnecessarily because of business interruptions or emergencies. Avoidable losses to reputation, revenue and productivity are being incurred when all that is required is a sufficiently drafted and tested business continuity plan. (more…)

BT Strike: What is Your Business Continuity Plan For a Telecoms Outage?

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

As the Union representing BT staff has announced plans to ballot its members on a possible strike over pay, do company business continuity plans include measures to cope with lengthy delays in resuming normal service in the event of a telecoms outage? (more…)

Mobile Phone Network Faults: What’s Your Business Continuity Back Up Strategy?

Friday, May 28th, 2010

What will your mobile workforce do if their principal forms of communication are unavailable? We take it for granted that mobile connectivity and signals are more reliant and available than they have ever been. But how many businesses have a continuity strategy for when the mobile network is disrupted? (more…)

Top 5 tips for maintaining business continuity this summer

Friday, May 21st, 2010

The sun is finally making an appearance and it feels like summer is finally on the horizon. With a weekend forecast of mediterranean weather, it’s got me thinking about summer related business continuity planning.

Here are my top 5 tips for ensuring business continuity this summer: (more…)

Will Business Continuity Plans For Olympics Fall Short?

Friday, May 14th, 2010

A survey commissioned by BT Global Services has found that 44% of board level executives are unaware of how the 2012 Olympic Games will affect the business continuity of their organisations. (more…)

Reducing Carbon Emissions, Are Electric Cars The Future?

Monday, May 10th, 2010

As Cornwall Council are flirting with idea of widespread introduction of electric cars in a bid to reduce the five million tonnes of CO2 which is emitted in the county each year, are electric cars the realistic answer? (more…)