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Another upside is forcing the company to learn to run without its founders or other key employees for a meaningful period of time.

This forces good processes to be put in place, and is an excellent fire drill in general.

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Talking fun, I think it would be fun for a company to run a bus factor fire drill from time to time -:just point to one employee and say "Bam! You're hit by a bus, leave the office now here's $2K, come back next Thursday. No email, no remote working and no phone contact with anyone from here."

I wonder how many companies (let alone startups) could deal effectively with this situation.

A chaos monkey that takes out personnel instead of servers. I like it.

I really like this idea! Wonder how I could convince my day job to try it out.

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