Question

While society expects a business to be prepared for disasters and to recover using its own resources, we do not seem to expect individuals to be prepared to survive a disaster. Should we expect government at any level to be responsible for disaster recovery at either the personal or business level? Why or why not? What sacrifices would a business have to make if the disaster recovery process were turned over to a government agency?

Answer 1

A disaster is something that has no answer to the cause and there is nothing that can help the cause to understand what needs to be done in case if a disaster. It is something for which individuals and organizations are generally not prepared for obvious reasons so I feel that the government can be a bit involved in this context and help in disaster recovery at any of the personal or business level. This can be expected because we can bank on the government because officially may be that is not their responsibility but it will benefit the organization and simultaneously the country as a whole.

If the disaster recovery process is turned over to a government agency then the organizations may have to sacrifice some of their interests because the government agency may just plan to work on the basic recovery process but not on the details, and tell organizations to restore what they possessed need to work on themselves and it may also happen that the various interests of the organization may also get sacrificed or compromised as the government may not be able to afford all the expenses as there will be other organizations as well who are affected.