Operational benefits across multiple silos:

• Risk management: reducing downtime, lost production, earnings volatility following severe hurricanes and tornadoes, by getting employees back to work sooner, being more productive if they are not distracted by severe damage or total destruction of their home.

• Workforce management: innovating a new employee benefit to attract and retain good workers, and to further align their interests with corporate productivity goals by assisting designated employees to fortify their homes.

• Differentiating your company as an employer of choice to attract and retain the best workers reducing the cost of turnover and lost productivity.

Employer support for residential mitigation can help your state generate greater FEMA mitigation funds:

• Employers can be catalysts for resiliency by helping their state secure greater FEMA mitigation funding by enhancing the value of each FEMA pre-disaster mitigation dollar with some level of private sector funding.

• Employers and states need to be seen as a destination of choice for good workers. This may become increasingly more important given the specter of increased workforce migration in the future.