Business Continuity Planning tools for employees

The challenge for organisations

Many businesses are preparing to enforce social distancing in response to COVID-19, directing employees to work from home, potentially for extended periods of time. This unprecedented action brings many unaddressed challenges.

When employees work from home for extended periods, keeping track of health and wellbeing becomes an operational priority rather than a discretionary extra. SituateMe's Employee BCP Tools help organisations stay connected with their people, using the same crowdsourced situational awareness platform that supports emergency managers. Staff can check in, share concerns and request assistance through a simple, intuitive interface, giving leaders a clearer picture of welfare across the workforce without adding burden to the people reporting.

The problems organisations face are often unaddressed until a crisis forces them into view. Enforcing social distancing and directing staff to work remotely brings questions about general wellbeing, isolation, and mental health to the surface. Business continuity planning has traditionally focused on assets, liabilities and processes, but the people side of continuity is just as critical, and our tools help organisations extend their preparedness efforts to include the employees who make those plans meaningful.

Situational awareness at scale depends on information flowing upward from those closest to the situation. A distressed employee who can send a request, an area experiencing an outage, or a family needing guidance on animal welfare are all signals that emergency managers and business leaders benefit from receiving early. Our platform turns everyday observations into structured, real-time insight, so organisations can escalate concerns and act before a small signal becomes a serious incident.

Preparedness also means having the channels and reporting tools in place before they are needed. Our emergency management platform combines live chat, messaging, and social channel listening with location-based reporting, so both employees and the public can contribute information in plain language. From pandemic response to bushfire events, drills and virtual deployments, organisations that invest in communication tooling find they respond faster, share situational awareness more effectively, and support their workforce through extended periods of disruption.

Tools that fit the way your people work

Each capability is designed around the same principle as the rest of SituateMe: better information, gathered quickly, leads to faster decisions.