In an online survey conducted in September by Angus Reid Strategies for Mansfield Communications', 69 percent of the workers surveyed had not received workplace communication about flu policies. Employee education on an organizations ™ plan and policies during an epidemic are crucial to ensure employee safety and business continuity. According to the CDC, organizations should examine policies for leave, teleworking, and employee compensation and review these with all employees so they are up-to-date on sick leave policies.

Many organizations are simply not ready for the influx of employees seeking remote access to business-critical data and applications. A dramatic increase in remote access requests can cause a huge network bottleneck and dramatically slow productivity. ANX PositivePRO helps IT organizations pre-determine their secure remote access requirements to optimize network performance even with a high number of users and significant bandwidth usage.

In speaking with our customers, fear of the H1N1 virus has caused a spike in remote access requests and SSL VPN implementations, said Michels. Besides the H1N1 pandemic, these plans are crucial for IT organizations to have in the event of severe weather, transit and transportation disruptions, and even acts of terrorism which could severely impact the ability of employees from getting to work or accessing business-critical data and applications. ANXeBusiness is well suited to help IT departments work through this issue and other matters that impact their business continuity plans.