ReiseSOS for Business: Why ReiseSOS Matters on Business Trips

Business trips run on a tight schedule: airport, taxi, meeting, next appointment. If your work phone fails along the way – dead battery, lost, stolen, dropped in a conference room – what's usually missing isn't access to personal contacts, but exactly the numbers that matter right now: your manager, colleagues back at the office, the client you're meeting in an hour. This article explains why that's a particular risk on business trips and how ReiseSOS helps.

In this article:

• 1. Why business trips are a particular risk
• 2. When your phone is unavailable: who needs to reach you now
• 3. What ReiseSOS offers business travellers
• 4. Checklist for your next business trip

1. Why business trips are a particular risk

• Tight schedule: between a connecting flight, a taxi and a meeting, there's barely any time to sort out a replacement device or a new SIM card.
• Unfamiliar country, unfamiliar network: no roaming, unknown phone shops, different plugs and chargers – finding a replacement abroad is often harder than at home.
• Conferences and trade shows: crowded halls, packed cloakrooms and full jacket pockets all raise the risk of a phone being stolen or simply lost.
• No backup on hand: unlike at home, there's rarely a second device or a person nearby who can just quickly look up a number.
• Business dependencies: corporate 2FA, VPN access and calendar invites are, for many people, tied to the very device that just went missing.

2. When your phone is unavailable: who needs to reach you now

Unlike on holiday, a business trip rarely comes down to just your own reachability – usually several people are waiting for a sign of life at the same time:

• Your manager: to report a last-minute change of plan or get a decision before the next appointment starts.
• Colleagues or an assistant back at the office: to reschedule calendar appointments or urgently send over documents.
• Clients or business partners on site: to announce a delay or confirm a meeting point, without creating the impression of unreliability.
• Your company's internal IT hotline: to block the work phone and disable VPN access before anyone unauthorised can get in.
• Your hotel or travel agency: for rebooking, or to reach reception if your room key lives in an app on the now-locked phone.

3. What ReiseSOS offers business travellers

ReiseSOS was originally built for personal emergencies – but it works just as well for the business contacts that need to be reachable when it counts:

• Store business emergency contacts: alongside family, add your manager, an assistant, your most important clients or business partners, and your company's IT support hotline.
• Accessible from any device: a laptop in your hotel room, a borrowed phone at a trade show booth, or the PC at reception – ReiseSOS runs without an app, straight in the browser.
• Premium for extra coverage: store bank and insurance details too, in case your company credit card is affected as well – from just €0.99 for the duration of the trip.
• Independent of your company's IT: no approval from your own IT department needed – set up in a few minutes, privately, with a PIN and security question instead of corporate credentials.

4. Checklist for your next business trip

• Store the important contacts – manager, assistant, IT support hotline, most important clients – in ReiseSOS beforehand.
• Pack a charger and a power bank, ideally with the right adapter for your destination.
• Don't keep the PIN or unlock code for your work phone in the same bag as the device itself.
• Note down your own company's IT support hotline for blocking devices and VPN access, and keep it handy.
• Back up your schedule and the most important contacts outside of your work phone too – e.g. on paper, or simply in ReiseSOS.

Don't have a ReiseSOS account yet? Create one for free – it only takes a few minutes, whether for personal or business use.

Keep reading: Lost phone on holiday – what to do? · Phone broken – how do I get a phone number?