COVID-19 Update

by | Mar 16, 2020 | Uncategorized

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To our Investors, Members and Partners:

With the impacts of COVID-19 on our regional business community already in effect, in addition to good hand hygiene and common-sense precautions with your employees and patrons, One Acadiana encourages all regional businesses to consider the following:

1. For your business: Prepare for how the economic downturn will impact credit, staffing, and insurance.

2. For your customers: Make your place of business as hygienic as possible and communicate what you are doing to customers so they feel comfortable visiting.

3. For your employees: Check, modify, and communicate HR policies regarding remote working, sick-leave, and compensation during health crisis. Try to ensure your policies are as flexible and non-punitive as possible. Sick employees should be encouraged to stay home.

4. For your workflow: Cross-train employees for key functions so that daily schedules can continue relatively uninterrupted by potential employee absences. Where relevant, consider staggering start and end times to reduce large numbers of people coming together at the same time; and create and test remote employee collaboration systems (consider apps such as Slack and Zoom).

5. For your cashflow: Communicate with your landlord (or tenants) and lenders about expectations and request flexibility (better to have that conversation now).

6. For yourself: Eat well, sleep, and exercise. Taking care of yourself in this time of stress will improve your resistance to infection and resilience in managing difficult business situations. And of course, wash your hands all the dang time and don’t touch your face, or anyone else, for that matter.

For us to best serve you, we need to know and share what our members are doing to manage risks. To that end, please tell us what what’s working and what you need from us: communications@oneacadiana.org.

One Acadiana offices (St. Mary and Travis locations) will remain closed until further notice; however, day-to-day operations will continue as our team works from home.

Please keep an eye on our website for updates on events, 1A news, and resources to help your business weather this trying time.

Additional Resources:

https://resources.acce.org/crisismanagement

http://www.ldh.la.gov/Coronavirus/

https://www.ready.gov/pandemic