Fleeing danger
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
What do you do when your staff are stuck in a conflict zone or dangerous situation? How do you get them out? Who pays for it? How do you persuade them to go back later?
Rahul Tandon speaks to Alex Nichiporchik whose gaming business tinyBuild has evacuated staff from Ukraine and Russia. He hears from Priscilla Dickey who was part of the US government evacuation from Wuhan in 2020.
Dale Buckner from Global Guardian explains the business of evacuation while Ian Umney discusses the rescue of his family from Ukraine.
Plus, Ema Boccagni from ECA International, which helps companies manage global workforces, reflects on the incentives required to attract workers back to some places.
Presenter: Rahul Tandon Producers: Helen Ledwick and James Graham Photo: An evacuation flight from Wuhan in February 2020. (Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rahul Tandon, and here on today's Business Daily from the BBC, we're looking at the growing |
| 0:07.2 | business of evacuations. So the reason our business will continue to grow is the level of uncertainty |
| 0:14.9 | and the fact that no one knows what comes next. How do you get your loved ones out of a war zone? And when lives and livelihoods are upended, what does happen next? |
| 0:24.5 | There was no alternative for me. |
| 0:26.2 | I was concerned that if I don't get there today, the Russians might get there tomorrow. |
| 0:32.6 | Now, I'm sure that some of you listening to this have worked abroad |
| 0:36.2 | and that many of you have friends or |
| 0:38.3 | family who've done that or are still doing it at the moment. But what does happen when it all goes |
| 0:44.1 | wrong when you suddenly need to get out fast? China shuts down transport out of the city of Wuhan |
| 0:50.7 | as fears rise across the country about a new respiratory illness that's infected hundreds. |
| 0:56.5 | Some 200 Americans have left the epicenter of China's coronavirus outbreak on a U.S. government |
| 1:01.9 | chartered flight. Hundreds of others, though, are still there. |
| 1:05.9 | Priscilla Dickey was living in Wuhan with her daughter. Now, I'm sure you remember the city |
| 1:10.7 | in China because it's where Now, I'm sure you remember the city in China |
| 1:11.5 | because it's where the pandemic started. |
| 1:14.9 | She was there when the city shut down. |
| 1:17.5 | After missing one evacuation flight, |
| 1:19.8 | she managed to get seats on another arranged by the US government. |
| 1:23.6 | She made a few voice notes as she traveled |
| 1:26.3 | through those empty streets to the airport. |
| 1:29.5 | I'm just realizing the scope of the situation I'm in. Now it's starting to finally hit me that I'm going |
| 1:41.8 | to go to America. I wanted to know, how does a government evacuation work? |
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