After 12 days out of the office I came back to a small mountain of post and back issues of the Cambridge News. The issue that particularly caught me was Monday 18th April, which reported that a factory on Dales Manor Business Park had sadly gone up in flames. There was a sense of ironry as the factory was a bottled water distribution centre.
However, the owner had been sitting at home watching Man U and received a call from one of his staff who had seen the smoke rising. They arrived on sight to find that the building was gutted.
I my mind this throws up not only the issue of lost stock, affect on staff, monetary loss and need to relocate to continue trading but a more immediate issue.
Where was all the company data, vehicle paperwork, customer details, supplier info and all data necessary to continue trading, stored. I sincerely hope it wasn't sitting in filing cabinets in the office, as they would now be soggy embers.
We all think it won't happen to us, I bet this local businessman thought the same thing, sadly it did and tomorrow it may be you.
Don't risk losing your business because you thought you would be ok, you never know what is going to happen or when.
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