Compliance & safety
Return to work solutions

Plan a safe return to the workplace
Protect your remote and hybrid workforce
Business leaders are challenged with how to support new working models and protect employees in response to COVID-19. With employees slowly returning to the job site and travel the pandemic continues to present ever-evolving conditions.
To safeguard operations and protect the digital and physical safety of returning staff, companies require a solution that offers employee engagement tools, as well as visual, hyper-local and contextualized data accessible in real-time.
Everbridge Managed Return to Work Solutions™ pairs our Critical Event Management (CEM) platform with a new COVID-19 Shield solution, to help business leaders mitigate coronavirus-related disruption, understand employee needs and reestablish pre-crisis levels of safety and operations— all through a single pane of glass.
Streamline operations for a safe return to office
Our solution keeps your business efficient and compliant
From technology concerns to employee well-being, the rapid shift to flexible work during the pandemic has continued to present challenges for businesses to navigate. Improve control and ensure a successful and efficient return to work strategy. We help organizations of all sizes implement effective safety protocols for employees and contractors, including risk assessment, rapid contact tracing, vaccination verification, and capacity management. Get oversight and control for better business continuity during critical events through aligned communication and mass notification across all worksites. Overcome disruptions with purpose-built data feeds, quick-start templates, and integrated modules that will help you reopen with confidence by:

Protecting people
Streamline business operations to manage new regulations for monitoring operational capacity and vaccine status to meet obligations for Duty of Care.

Managing process at scale
Plan a safe and sustainable strategy for return-to-work that supports ways to effectively manage vaccination status, facility capacity, and the location of workers.

Reducing risk
Ensure adherence to state, local and federal vaccine mandates. Everbridge solutions will help keep your organization safe, operating at capacity and within compliance guidelines.
Features and benefits
COVID-19 Return to Work by Everbridge is fully prepared to help you overcome pandemic disruptions with purpose-built data feeds, quick-start templates and integrated modules. This comprehensive solution supports organizations with key features and benefits, including:

Vaccination compliance
Enable employees to self-report COVID-19 vaccination status, symptoms or infections, and receive information on closest testing locations.
Facility capacity management
Manage daily facility in-office limits with automated capacity planning, and end-to-end contact tracing through automated tracking of infected workers.
Risk assessment
Stay ahead of potential risk developments with visual, real-time, hyper-local, rich, contextual data on severe weather, new COVID-19 outbreaks and more.
Global, real-time data
Draw from 22,000 data sources across 175 countries, tracking virus hotspots, travel restrictions, quarantines and more to protect employees in any location.
Digital repositories
Offer employees access to a digital repository filled with important COVID-19 news and resources to help them stay apprised of the latest developments.
Special needs registries
Take advantage of over 100 communication modalities, including surveys, wellness checks and video messaging to verify statuses for vulnerable individuals
Asset tracking and management
Automatically identify and manage impact to supply chain and transportation routes by tracking production stoppages and closures with a complete audit trail.
Crowd intelligence
Anonymously verify and report on crowd density and movement in crisis locations to protect employee and visitor health while ensuring communication privacy.
Why Everbridge?
We’ve partnered with government, business, and healthcare leaders on a safe return to work strategy
Since the inception of the pandemic we’ve leveraged our Critical Event Management (CEM) expertise to collaborate with organizations to overcome the obstacles to Return to Work and to Return to Public Spaces with a particular focus on security, operations, risk, human resources, clinical operations, emergency management, and supply chain.
The future of work
Is your company ready to navigate new work trends?
In this interview with Cara Antonacci, VP of Global People & Culture here at Everbridge, she talks about how new trends point to a need to become an agile organization to retain and engage talent. Today’s automation tools enable global organizations to be agile by adopting new processes and technology to measure productivity and maintain a flexible and safe work environment.
“We needed to know not only where our employees were, but where our employees have been. With offices around the globe in 18-20 timezones, using things like frankly the Everbridge tool to alert our employees on their mobile phones.”
Ensure a successful return to work strategy
Everbridge improves oversight of your workforce
The perfect solution to overcome safety challenges
Everbridge solutions help organizations of all sizes implement effective safety protocols for employees and contractors, including enabling fast risk assessment and rapid contact tracing. With Everbridge, you can quickly align communications, send mass notifications during critical events and maintain business continuity across all work sites with greater oversight and control.

Cybersecurity
Manage employees from anywhere
Leverage a powerful and seamless solution to respond quickly to cyber disruptions and communicate incident resolution progress to employees and stakeholders.
Employee engagement
Achieve maximum workforce engagement
Survey employees to assess their health and needs and conduct regular wellness checks to quickly determine employee readiness for returning to work


Duty of care
Protect the physical health of your employees
Supplement or complement existing manual contact tracing efforts to improve accuracy and speed of COVID-19 tracing to protect every employee.
Operational resilience
Minimize impact to digital and physical assets
Maintain business continuity by quickly pinpointing potential impact to people, assets and production resources before, during and after a critical event.

Insider threat protection
In this clip, our CSO, Tracy Reinhold, discusses the need to turn to automated technology to protect against insider threats with a hybrid workforce. Today’s employees work throughout the day, and technology helps to ensure insider-threat and security breaches can be easily detected and addressed.
“Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that every organization — regardless of size or industry, and most importantly for every operating location — needs a pandemic management plan that encompasses the respond and recover phases of the crisis.”

Business requirements
What you need
- Disable access badges
- Notify stakeholders of specific events
- Keep track of employees accessing facilities using badging system data
- Send messages to employees approaching organization facilities
Business solutions
How we help
- Keep track of employees that are vaccinated
- Request access to go to the office
- Automatically authorize / deny access to facility
- Keep track of who has been in which office and when

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