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Article: Mercer Global Avian Flu Survey: Striking Gap between Employer Concern and Current Pandemic Preparedness.
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- March 30, 2006
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SINGAPORE -- Mercer Human Resource Consulting:
--Some 70% of businesses surveyed believe a pandemic would damage profitability, but only 47% have a business continuity plan in place and just 17% have budgeted for pandemic preparedness.
--Companies in Asia are the best prepared -- 25% have established a pandemic preparedness budget compared to 12% in Europe and 7% in the US.
--Telecommunications and pharmaceuticals companies are the most likely to have developed a pandemic preparedness budget while few retail companies have done so.
While evidence of the global spread of avian flu increases, there is a striking gap between companies' ...