Disaster Recovery

Recently, my employer has been trying to implement a Disaster Recovery plan in case of some extreme event. The example they gave was if the building was razed to the ground by fire, and all our PC’s were gone; how could we recover?

So they ordered laptops for the entire department, and the idea is that employees take them home at night and bring them in the next day.

I agree, it does prevent the company being screwed if the whole building goes up in flames, but it increases risk of theft, because it is much easier to rob an individual on the street, or in their house.

The office has cameras, multiple doors, security guard – so to rob a computer or laptop from the building is harder than stealing from an individual outside the office.

Another negative is that the laptop can be damaged in transit. All it takes is for me to slam a multipack of drinks directly on it; bang.

I wasn’t happy about packing/unpacking a laptop into my bag each day and transporting it to/from work. However, we actually implemented it just in time, because as you know; the Coronavirus outbreak meant that everyone was sent home. If everyone has a laptop, everyone has a means of working; no excuses (well, apart from Beavis).

In terms of my blog, I anticipate there will be fewer new stories since I’m mainly sat in solitude and don’t have great visibility of what everyone is doing, and don’t overhear the banter.

The blog won’t see a slowdown for a while though, because I was churning out the stories in February, so I have them queued to be published over the next month or so. So if you read some story of mine about being in an office or physical location, there’s no need to doubt its authenticity – it just happened weeks ago, before the outbreak. There could be many stories about working from home published during May, but I really hope we return to the office by then.