025 -- Upper-Intermediate - Planning For The Worst

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Well, right, let’s move to our next order of busi- ness, as many of you are aware, in recent weeks there has been a lot of media coverage surround- ing this bird flu issue. And it’s come to my atten- tion that our company lacks any sort of bird flu contingency plan.

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Basically, we need to come up with a clear plan; we need to outline specific actions that our com- pany can take to maintain critical business func- tions in case a pandemic strikes.

a

So, what I’d like to do is: first appoint someone to look after drafting our plan; Ralph, I’d like you to head up this project. C: Sure, no problem. What issues do you want me to consider?

b

Well, let’s see, there are a few points we need to be thinking about. . . first, I’ll need you to analyze our numbers and figure out what kind of financial impact an outbreak might have.

a

You’ll also need to think about how we can avoid any of our employees getting infected; think of ways to reduce employee-customer contact, per- haps some IT solutions that will allow our people to work from home. C: I guess you’ll need me to forecast employee ab- sences as well, right? And I’ll think about the im- pact this will have on our clients. Hey, what about vaccines? Should we be thinking about getting vaccines for our employees?

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Exactly right. So, I’ll leave this to you, and we’ll review the draft plan in two weeks. Okay, so, any- one want to order some KFC for lunch?