The Elevation Of Video Conferencing In The Existing World Climate

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The recent troubles with the air travel may well have an unforeseen effect on the use of tools. Here, I look at what the long term may hold for video conferencing.

Video conferencing is nothing new. It has been about 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 preferred to travel. Flights across the Atlantic to take people to and from conferences and business meetings are common place. They are accepted as the way to do things.

But, in April, all this collapsed as flights were stranded, people were left stuck powerless to make meetings and perhaps worse, not capable to return home to their families. A little meeting and a hop across the Atlantic unexpectedly became a long time away from the desk and home.

And this is costing business dearly. A lot of cannot put off such meetings and there must be delegates stuck on the wrong sides of the Atlantic who ought to get home to continue their work. Their employers have sent them there and cannot now get them back to a productive environment.

So for plenty of, 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 around all of these firms that are desperately trying to make price cuttings to keep afloat through this global economic downturn? Those that were paying hundreds flying workers across the Atlantic and to the Far east? Perhaps even thousands when teams of employees were sent half way round the world?

Well, this is where out of the blue 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.

businesses have the option 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 merely the 2 hours to make the call, rather then half the week, a huge flight bill, hotel costs and taxi fares.

Ultimately, organisations will be the winner. Some workers will miss the joys of international 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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Written by Keith Lunt, owner of Formby Online and Mobile Phone Buyer web-sites.

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