Send Workers Home Now If You Can, U.S. Business-Crisis Experts Say (2)

If your employees can work from home, they probably already should be.

With coronavirus detected in more than a dozen U.S. states and the domestic death toll rising, sending workers home should be a logical next step, said Scott Ream, chair of the Association of Continuity Professionals, a 1,700-member organization of business professionals that advises companies on how to operate in a time of crisis.

“If an organization is able to have people work from home, then obviously that’s the no-brainer,” said Ream, who also operates his own business-continuity company. “The ACP recommends that if you are able to execute a work-from-home contingency plan you should be, ...