HTFU London

I don't get it cliveo. Why does your disaster recovery plan need everyone/anyone in the office?

Now, last time I checked disasters usually involved the complete loss of your office, data centre, etc. so it sounds like an epic fail on the part of the disaster planners.

Our disaster recovery plan is meant to operate when no one can get to the office. Everyone logs in from home and off they go.

Yesterday just over half of our staff skived off. Many (but not all) tried to log in from home. The system crashed. Disaster recovery plan fail.

Only those who made it in were able to work.

If a bomb goes off, I expect that the plan, from an IT perspective, requires a large death toll or the system will fail again. Not very comforting from a personal nor business perspective.