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Article

31 Aoû 2020

Auteur:
ESCP Business School, for Löning Human Rights & Responsible Business

Companies that prioritize workers in their response to COVID-19 fared better, according to study

"Business continuity during COVID-19 and beyond", 26. August 2020

[A] closer look at the actions of companies in industries risking disruption as the pandemic evolves provides early insights. After a thorough analysis of these actors, as well as conducting interviews and surveys with businesses regarding their experience, we are able to find certain common tropes that may inform future actions...

[T]he organizations that have come out relatively unscathed are those that have already anticipated and have taken the steps necessary to put their community and their workers first. Recognizing that without these stakeholders, without their health and well-being, all the business planning in the world cannot survive wholly disruptive events [...] has proven to be a key to not only continuity, but success...

Investing in the community, in workers, and in sustainability not only provides a competitive advantage, reaps economic rewards, and allows for good PR – it also ensures continued business continuity in whatever awaits.

[Note: See this article for a statement from Tyson on measures they took.]