Businesses Plan to Tell Staff to Take Holiday
New research, reported in Computerworld and conducted by Mitel, has revealed that more than two out of three (68%) UK businesses with greater than £1 million ($2.49m AUD) turnover are ill-prepared for unforeseen events.
Thes organisations admitted it would take them two working days or longer to become operational following a disaster. This is an interesting revelation considering the number of UK firms with business continuity plans in place has nearly tripled in the last six years .
According to Gwilym Funnell, Mitel Australia Managing Director, “The UK has seen a number of disasters affecting the London area in 2005. Australian businesses can learn a lot from the harsh lessons learnt by businesses in the UK. The businesses that have best weathered disasters – both man made and natural – are those that have data centres across multiple sites, and have encouraged employee teleworking from home.”
Other findings
- Business disruption is estimated to cost UK businesses on average £6,000 ($14,900 AUD) per day
- 32% of the companies surveyed admitted they would be prepared to take an even bigger hit on profits by giving staff the day off if they were unable to access the office.
- 26% of senior managers told researchers they would attempt to rely on mobile phones to keep their business running, pointing to the lack of planning around telecoms protection.
- Larger companies, with a turnover of over £20 million ($50m AUD), are proving to be better prepared to address business continuity planning, with two thirds (66%) estimating they could resume operations within 24 hours.
- The UK retail industry in particular was highlighted as the least prepared to cope with disasters, with 64% taking more than 48 hours and 28% requiring over a week to get back up and running.
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