The recent problems with the air travel may possibly have an unpredicted effect on the use of technology. Here, I look at what the long term may hold for video conferencing. Video conferencing is nothing new. It has been around for years, as has conference phone calls. And all of this is getting less difficult with the internet as people become used to talking to associates and contacts via their web camera. But, businessmen have still favourite to travel. Flights across the Atlantic to take people to and from conferences and business meetings are common place. They are time-honored as the way to do things. But, in April, all this collapsed as flights were stranded, people were left stuck unable to make meetings and perhaps worse, incapable to return home to their families. A short meeting and a hop across the Atlantic rapidly became a long time away from the desk and home. And this is costing trade dearly. Loads of cannot put off such meetings and there must be delegates stuck on the wrong sides of the Atlantic who have to get home to go on with their work. Their employers have sent them there and cannot now get them back to a productive environment. So for numerous, remote working is starting to replace an office. But with a difference! Rather than remotely working from their home office or whilst in a motorway services, they are instead finding a desk the wrong side of the Atlantic and signing on to their office computer to read emails and continue working. But, what about those that have not made it to the meetings? Well, even the price of a trans-Atlantic phone call does not match the cost of the flights, accommodation and lost work time. So suddenly people are discovering video conferencing as a replacement. And what round all of these companies that are desperately trying to make cost cuttings to keep afloat through this global economic downturn? Those that were spending hundreds flying workers across the Atlantic and to the Far east? Maybe even thousands when teams of employees were sent half way around the world? Well, this is where rapidly companies will start to see the light. What was once seen as a benefit of the job - air miles - can now be seen as a risk of being stranded. firms have the prospect now to install video conferencing facilities and start to use them whilst there is the chance of flight disruption and get their workers into the habit of taking only the 2 hours to make the call, rather then half the week, a huge flight bill, hotel costs and taxi fares. Ultimately, businesses will be the winner. Some personnel will miss the joys of intercontinental travel as part of their job, but by embracing technology, they will save their employers a fortune and prevent themselves risking being stranded!
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The recent tribulations with the air travel possibly will have an unexpected effect on the use of tools. Here, I look at what the long term may hold for video conferencing.
Written by Keith Lunt, owner of Formby Online and Mobile Phone Buyer websites.
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