Failing to consider bigger business continuity issues

If you work exclusively from home, your office is your world when it comes to your career. But many fail to consider the possibility of how to continue working if certain conditions, such as weather, or a fire, force one out of the house indefinitely.

Zbar is a vet in preparing for the worst because of his South Florida location.

"I always wonder what someone in Massachusetts or New York must think when I say, we have a storm coming, I might not be available for few days."

But these days, Zbar, who has worked from home since 1989, finds he rarely has to lose a day of productivity if a storm hits. Cloud computing gives him the ability to work from just about anywhere. However, those who have everything stored on a hard drive on a computer that has to be left at home may not be so lucky. Ditto for those who need to get their hands on sensitive documents that have no digital copy elsewhere.