Protecting Your Business in a Pandemic : Plans, Tools, and Advice for Maintaining Business Continuity

"A pandemic is an epidemic that covers a huge swath of the country or even the world. And it's just as scary as it sounds. For example, it's estimated that up to a third of the U.S. population could fall ill in an Avian flu pandemic, costing the U.S. economy alone up to $675 billion. Worse, pandemics shatter lives and businesses and tend to rock society to its foundations. But humanity has been through pandemics before. As disaster-management and business-continuity expert Geary Sikich shows in this book, there are ways to make the best of a bad situation. These methods improve the chance that businesses will remain resilient, and people healthy, employed, and productive - even in the darkest days of an international disaster. Protecting Your Business in a Pandemic helps managers and owners understand the threat pandemics pose to society, the overall economy, and their businesses."--BOOK JACKET.