Malaysia Airlines Incident Highlights Risk of Employees Traveling Together
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It's seemingly cold, crass and cruel to confront these issues, but corporations, large and small, need to have policies outlining how many employees can fly together in case a nightmare scenario takes place.
Should executives fly together? How about non-managment employees? Should corporations have risk-mangement policies covering these issues?
The issue comes to the fore with the presumed crash of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 as Freescale Semiconductor of Austin, Texas, stated it had 20 employees on the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Twelve of the employees were from Malaysia, and eight from China.
Freescale, which is controlled by a Blackstone, Carlyle Group and Permira Advisers consortium, has more than 18,000 employees, and has operations in more than 20 countries, including China and Malaysia. Freescal
