{"id":2034,"date":"2020-03-19T15:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2020-03-19T15:13:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T13:13:30","slug":"the-pandemic-of-covid-19-defines-the-new-working-environment-and-the-business-continuity-plans-bcps-of-the-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.liberalglobe.com\/?p=2034","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic of Covid-19 defines the New Working Environment and the Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) of the Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The global pandemic of coronavirus has forced most companies worldwide to\nadapt to the new reality by adopting new habits in their working environment. A\nsubstantial but temporary change is that workers and those working in the same\nplace are “prohibited” from coming into physical contact with each\nother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some other cases where workers work in places with critical\ninfrastructure of the company are first forced to disinfect, then dress in\nspecial uniforms and then enter the workplace. When they do complete their\nwork, they should be thrown into the trash by consumable materials such as\nuniform, gloves, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Work from a distance (teleworking)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, these changes are temporary and when the vaccine for coronavirus is found, workers will stop and being brought back to normality. However, the biggest change that occurs with a permanent nature is the forced application of the use of work remotely, i.e. teleworking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teleworking is nothing new appeared timid in the late 1990s and began to\nbecome increasingly used mainly by multinational companies through which their\nexecutives could work together in real-time when they were at different\naddresses around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main objective of teleworking was to reduce the operating costs of\nenterprises, naturally following other measures of this type such as the\nselection of smaller business premises, fewer jobs, a reduction in the number\nof movements etc. that, among other things, all these measures and changes in\nthe working environment were also intended to reduce the overall environmental\nfootprint of a business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the pandemic of coronavirus, thousands of companies operating mainly\nin the field of service are forced to adopt teleworking in a violent way. We\nshould not forget that the degree of productivity in such forced changes in the\nworking environment always falls short in relation to the degree of\nproductivity they suffer when all employees had to be in the offices of the\nbusiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this remote work (teleworking) cannot be adopted by companies\nactive in the production sector where the presence of staff is extremely\nnecessary for the achievement of the production objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that thousands of companies active in the services sector are\nbeing forced to adopt teleworking for their staff leads to a drastic increase\nin demand for portable PCs creating conditions for increasing their production\nand a drastic reduction in reserves in its retailers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revisions of <\/strong>Business<\/strong> <\/strong>Continuity<\/strong> <\/strong>Plans<\/strong> (BCPs) of the companies <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In today’s times and amid the pandemic of coronavirus the most common\nmeasures taken by the companies themselves and businesses are regular\nmicrobiotas in workplaces, the placement of disinfectants and wipes\nrespectively in offices and in jobs in general, the encouragement of those who\ndo not feel good not to come to the office but to remain in house arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The executives and employees of companies coming from abroad should remain\nin preventive quarantine for at least 14 days. Of course, all these preventive\nmeasures are implemented by the general guidelines given by each state\napparatus and do not necessarily require the existence of a Business Continuity\nPlan (BCP) by businesses.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Business Continuity Plans is the process of creating systems of\nprevention and recovery to deal with potential threats to a company. In\naddition to prevention, the aim is to enable ongoing operations before and\nduring the execution of disaster recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the above definition, in the BCP should be included any\nevent-threat that could negatively impact operations such as supply chain,\ninterruption, loss of or damage to critical infrastructure (major machinery or\ncomputing\/network resource etc.). This type of threats includes epidemic,\nearthquake, fire, flood, cyber-attack, sabotage, Power, IT, Telecoms outage\nequally, Terrorism\/Piracy, War\/civil disorder, supplier failure, data\ncorruption etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As such a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) is a subset of risk management.\nA BCP outlines a range of disaster scenarios and the steps the business will\ntake in any scenario to return to regular trade. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the implementation of the company’s BCP, responsible is the crisis management\nteam of the company that undertakes with the implementation of BCP the operational\ncontinuity of the company. The decisions of this group are obliged to apply all\nthe employees and executives of the company without exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a rule, Eurozone and US banks are required to have BCP. In addition, all\nlarge companies and multinational companies have BCP. It is commonplace that\nall the BCPs of the companies to date do not foresee situations of intense\n“siege” brought about by an epidemic globally.  The up to date BCPs concerned events of\ndisaster with short duration, such as fires, floods, earthquakes etc.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pandemic of coronavirus is also unprecedented as an event and will\nlikely last several months. Given these findings, the various existing BCPs are\nconsidered insufficient and should be reviewed day by day and hour by hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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