If you get hit by a bus tomorrow morning, your organization will not stop needing public updates, but your colleagues will spend forty-eight frantic hours trying to guess your login credentials.
Across the public sector, thousands of government communicators operate as lone operators or anchor tiny two-person teams. You handle emergency alerts, draft media releases, respond to hostile press inquiries, and manage community channels around the clock.
It works fine right up until real life intervenes. You catch a severe flu, suffer sudden mental burnout, or experience an unexpected family emergency.
Without a personal continuity plan, stepping away creates immediate operational chaos.