The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic left many companies scrambling when shelter in place orders came down from government officials. But Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive Software, was planning for that day for nearly eight years. The preparations began in the aftermath of 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. The storm hit the company hard and Zelnick, who had been CEO for less than two years, quickly ordered his team to devise a plan for future possible situations where working from the office would not be possible. Coincidentally, Take-Two already planned a work from home test day of its disaster recovery plan on March 12 when the coronavirus became a concern in the U.S. That test ended up serving as more of a kick-off point than a test, and the transition, Zelnick told Digital Trends, has been “seamless”. “Any public company, any reasonable organization, needs to have a disaster recovery plan,” he says. “When Hurricane Sandy hit, we had a really hard time in New York. It was relatively early days for [our current management team]. We were still building up our infrastructure and we lost our email servers for about 2.5 days. To say the very least, that focused on our mind. And… Read full this story
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