Six Major Findings and Analysis


Company Demographics


1. Global 500—These organizations are significantly more likely to have encountered 24 out of the 37 threats. Interestingly, they are also significantly less likely to have experienced the occurrence of four threats with their employees: travel-related infections, lack of access to Western-standard medical care, language and cultural estrangement, and lack of legal/administrative compliance. Global 500 companies are, in general, likely to have experienced incidents (i.e., they have many employees and are more likely to operate worldwide), but less likely to have experienced threats that they are not capable of managing (such as travel-related infections, lack of access to Western-standard


medical care, cultural estrangement, and lack of legal and administrative policies) as a result of their greater experience, planning capabilities, resources and infrastructure.


2. Company size—Those companies with more than 10,000 employees are significantly more likely to have dealt with 19 of the 37 threats than companies with less than 10,000 employees. Companies of 1,000 or more employees are significantly more likely to have dealt with eight different threats. The types of threats are mainly related to a political situation, illness and pandemics, workplace accidents and an ash cloud. The pattern is somewhat different when it comes to infectious diseases. Employees of medium-sized companies (1,000 to 9,999) are


Figure 10 Company size


Occurrence of EmployeeThreat by Company Size and Global 500 Small (<1000)


Medium (1,000-10,000)


Terrorism Kidnapping


Hijacking Piracy


Lawlessness Violent crime


Opportunistic crime Organized crime Imprisonment War


Insurgency


Political upheaval Coup d'état


Civil unrest Earthquake Flood


Hurricane, typhoon, tsunami Ash cloud


Illness while on assignment Chronic disease of employee


Infectious diseases Pandemics


Travel-related infections


Lack of access toWestern medical care Workplace accident


Lack of air quality Rural isolation


Remoteness of work location


Language and cultural estrangement Road accidents


Airline catastrophes Hotel fires


Lost luggage Lost passport Travel delays Pickpockets


Lack of admin/legal compliance Frequency of occurrence


10.2 5.9 5.4 3.2 23.7 20.4 45.4 6.0 7.6 5.9 8.2 26.5 10.3 34.6 21.6 19.5 26.1 38.4 63.4 23.5 36.0


28.1 38.0 48.6 35.1 18.8


28.0 41.9


40.0 38.7 1.6 2.7 51.9 22.6 75.8 32.1 32.3


Lowest


17.5 10.0 9.6 8.7 28.8 29.3 49.8 11.3 10.5 13.1 19.4 38.3 11.0 47.8 37.4 56.3 37.8 56.3 73.8 27.6 38.4 45.4 39.6 55.0 54.6 22.2 24.3 38.9 39.3 48.7 2.2 3.9 64.9 37.6 77.9 33.5 29.4


Second lowest Large (10,000+)


32.8 20.5 16.7 7.7 39.0 43.0 60.3 22.1 16.5 15.4 23.6 51.5 15.2 56.3 52.4 52.6 52.2 65.9 80.6 39.3 33.1 55.7 39.7 56.3 61.4 26.8 27.8 41.9 46.3 63.0 10.3 10.3 65.4 47.8 85.7 46.0 33.0


Second highest Global 500


40.0 26.2 21.0 11.2 40.2 47.2 68.9 23.6 19.6 15.0 25.7 49.0 15.5 59.6 53.8 58.7 51.4 73.1 74.3 34.9 35.8 52.4 33.0 49.1 57.5 31.1 27.4 38.7 40.6 61.9 12.4 15.1 67.6 47.2 84.9 46.2 27.4


Highest


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