Transport Problems

By Jorge García Carnicero

This week there has been two events that should be attended by business continutiy managers in their continuity scenarios. There are the huge traffic jam that occurred in Madrid last Monday and the problem because of a sabotage in the rail singaling system in the  highspeed traing (AVE) between Madrid and Barcelona. Both events has had the same consecuence: lack of certain profiles in their work places, that could be in their usual work place or after traveling to other city.

Analyzing possible solutions for this problem, and assuming that  it’s not possible to foresee the problem before it happen, the best option is to establish the mechanism required to:

1. Warn the employees that there has been a problem related with transport, which requires that the company must realize that there is a problem
2. Establish the mechanism required in ordert the employees could work remotely, through teleworking/homeworking.

 Undoubtedly, to allow the employees to be warned there has to be established a supervision system by the company, which requires a 7x24 alert system. This system could be rolled out internally or could be outsourced, always taking into account the cost-benefit relation. It could be also interesting to be incorporated in the early alert system, in the security SOCs, for example.

From teleworking, are still valid the solutions described in my post Legionella, a real threat