by Rebecca Walker — August 27, 2008—If the power goes out, will America’s small businesses be prepared? Not really, according to the results of a recent survey commissioned by Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson.
Seventy-nine percent of the small business decision makers surveyed experienced at least one power outage in 2007, and 67 percent of respondents anticipate outages in the next 12 months. Forty-two percent had to close their businesses during the longest outages.
Yet only 39 percent of the businesses surveyed have back-up power systems.
“Emerson’s survey findings are alarming considering that more than 99 percent of all American businesses are small businesses, with these companies generating 45 percent of the total U.S. payroll,” said Steve Strauss, nationally syndicated business columnist and author of “The Small Business Bible.” “It is critical that small enterprises have a business-continuity plan that includes back-up power systems to keep the business running when the main power source goes down.”
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