White Paper: Getting more productive just got easier
Businesses are continuously under pressure to do more with less. Although this may mean different things to different people, it often translates into a need to improve time management and productivity while continuing to cut costs. In an effort to meet these seemingly opposing goals, many companies have begun looking for ways to limit business travel by investing in new technologies. To some, that may mean reducing international or domestic travel for meetings or training sessions. To others, it may mean reducing employees’ commutes to and from work or between branches, customers and partner sites.
Either way, cutting back on travel can help companies rein in their spending. However, it also can have unintended consequences. When people stop meeting in person, communication can quickly break down, leading to longer cycles to get things done. Email can be easily misinterpreted and cannot convey critical cues like gestures, mannerisms and tone of voice, heightening the risk of errors. Phone calls and audio conferencing allow people to communicate verbally but require them to make extra efforts to also share documents and applications – if those tools are even available. Web conferencing partially resolves this challenge by enabling participants to share their screens, but it still doesn’t allow people to see each other and often requires audio conferencing in conjunction to the web conference.