This moody home office designed by Malcolm Simmons for Emily Henderson Design has a wall of built-ins and a bold piece of framed art that is camera-ready for all of those work Zooms. Our work is here is done. According to the Texas State Office of Risk Management (SORM), there are six types of contingency plans if the regular office is no longer a viable place to work. Some people think this is a sign of a flip in progress, but there is limited scientific evidence to support this hypothesis. Frequent audits of the plan should be made to ensure that the same people are still employed in the same roles with the same contact information. What types of redress are available through the Office of Privacy and Civil Liberties? As part of the BIA process, certain types of data should be identified as crucial to running the business. It’s clear the agency needs aid, which should be part of any new stimulus bill, and that we should probably stamp return to sender on Trump as soon as possible. In-House — This expensive option calls for building mirror facilities — built to the exact company specifications — that can be occupied in case of an emergency.

For a week, the studio had a man sit inside a Plexiglas work cubicle on top of an office building overlooking Times Square. Light enters the camera and is processed through a small wireless computer, which then broadcasts it as infrared LED images on the inside of the glasses. Some regions have privatized their water distribution, which has often led to conflict. Several recent U.S. government regulations including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, Sarbanes-Oxley Act require that the health and financial industries have detailed contingency plans in place to safeguard confidential client information. You’ll also need paperwork and procedures for dealing with evacuations, floods, fires, earthquakes and insurance. A good disaster recovery plan is like an information insurance policy for a small or large business. For example, the disaster recovery company SunGard was able to keep its Gulf Coast clients in business by relocating many of them to SunGard hotsites, off-site facilities equipped with the computing power and backed-up data to keep systems and services online. In a disaster of Katrina’s magnitude, there’s only so much that can be done to salvage a business and keep essential services online.

Keep reading to find out what kind of information goes into the actual disaster recovery plan. But for now, let’s keep you in a microgravity environment to learn more about the effects of free-fall on the human body. Space stations are a place to do cutting edge scientific research in an environment that cannot be matched on Earth. There are also efforts to try to introduce ice-forming materials into clouds to “seed” the formation of rainfall. Security measures should also be included in this section of the plan so that all employees are trained in the safeguarding of the company’s systems and sensitive data. According to the 2006 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 52 percent of the 616 large corporations surveyed said they’d experienced unauthorized use of computer systems within the past 12 months. Because of the speed at which technology is changing, there’s a greater chance of a “knowledge gap” leading to inadequate information technology security precautions. It’s called the Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology project (LEAPTech), and while it’s not ready for flight yet, the team is going to test the experimental wing by mounting it to a truck and driving it across a dried up lakebed at Edwards Air Force base in California at 70 mph later this year.

In a white paper published by SunGard called “Lessons Learned from Katrina”, the authors say that successful plans not only account for the transportation and safe lodging of employees, but of their families as well. Also called a business continuity plan or an information availability strategy, a disaster recovery plan is a detailed, step-by-step course of action for getting a business back on its feet — and quickly — after a natural or manmade disaster. Each employee should be trained in his role in the disaster recovery plan. Drafting a good disaster recovery plan is a slow, methodical process. The proposal isn’t the plan, but rather a “plan for making the plan.” If the disaster recovery plan is going to be created in-house, the proposal should recommend which specific employees will manage the project and approximately how many work hours it should take. A third-party disaster recovery specialist can also provide a company with alternate workspaces in the event that the regular office is unavailable.