Originally Posted by
Tom Bradys Cat
I have seen for months people saying that airlines are done for and business travel is done blah blah.
Anyway I've taken a 5 month preemptive sabatical away from flying doing project managent stuff. Been doing it a few weeks already and I can tell you first hand that this zoom, skype, messenger, voip, phone call boogey man isn't real.
Its a mess..'oh can you hear me?...ahhh your breaking up...oh sorry I think I spoke over you....no, what document are you looking at?' It is messy to the point that meetings are cancelled and there are more one on ones and chinese whispers having to take place elaewhere. In a collaborative workplace it doesn't work.
After seeing it.....im not worried.
Have a friend that’s a top executive at a fortune 5 company. They’ve invested tens of millions of dollars into teleconferencing. Not zoom, Skype, or whatever is the free stuff. They’re making their own networks that link independently. It’s high quality, and likely not going anywhere for a long time. If that’s one, I’m sure the others are doing it.
That doesn’t mean all their business travel is going away, and a significant portion will not be traveling for meetings that would have been face to face.