Originally Posted by
ScepticalOptomist
Time will tell. The business owners I deal with daily think virtual meetings are a band aid and can’t wait to send their people in face to face.
Business has and will always be done face to face - rather than on the phone / zoom etc. We’ve had other means of communicating for decades and yet business still relies on the ability to travel to a meeting.
CV won’t change that.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting business travel will disappear completely, but it could definitely become less common. Yes, the technology has been available for sometime, but it’s only been recently that many business have been forced to use it and can now evaluate its merits.
Zoom meetings have their flaws, but so to does air travel. Packing, traffic to the airport, flight delays, the time incurred by the flight itself, waiting for bags, taxi out of airport, hotels and doing it all again to get home. The time/financial costs of business travel vs a simple log on to a zoom meeting will see many businesses reevaluate their business travel needs.
Plus we’re evaluating the technology associated with Skype/zoom meetings today, who knows how much better all of that will be in 3-5 years time.