What will you do if the Swine flu hits your organisation?

The latest UK Government figures suggest a worst case of up to one in eight employees forced to take time off work due to swine flu. On 28 th July, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) advised businesses to consider offering staff the option of home working to maintain continuity during the swine flu epidemic. The organisation warned that companies could be hit by intense periods of staff absence if projected figures for infections are realised.
Remote access is simple in theory but hard to achieve on a mass scale...here are some things that needs to be considered:
1. Who should be able to access and what should they be able to access? It is never a good idea to open the whole network for access.
2. How should they be able to access? To let everybody use their private PC:s for access could be a security challenge. How do you know if the PC is infected or not? Maybe a USB client with terminal access would be the best and most cost-effective solution.
3. How do the users authenticate themselves? I have seen many times that intruders use crises in a organisation to exploit networks..simply because no-one cares about IT Security during (as an example) a bomb threat. I strongly recommend 2-factor authentication.
I guess what I am trying to say is to plan ahead. The cost of trying to solve the problem during the crises will always be more expensive then fixing the problem beforehand. A small investment now can save tons of money later.