Regardless of the industry you work in, there’s bound to be a moment – once a month, or perhaps even once a week – when the entire office crowds into a small, claustrophobia-inducing room to take tabs on what everyone’s doing. As you sit and listen to each facet of the company report its status, you wonder, desperately, if there’s any alternative to these interminable and unremittingly boring excursions into corporate routine. Fortunately, a much better option does exist: online meetings. With unified communications, online meetings can become a viable opportunity for any company, with many advantages. Here are a few of them:
* Time saved.
* Recorded meetings.
* Overall productivity boosts.
* Forward thinking.
I – Word Understanding
Claustrophobia-inducing – causes fear of small and/or enclosed space
Take tabs – to watch or monitor
Facet – part (department)
Interminable – endless
Unremittingly – non stop
II – Have Your Say
1. How often do you have business meetings? What are the things you wish to change about business meetings?
2. What are the advantages of person to person meetings compared to online meetings?
3. Let’s look at the benefits of online meetings. Share your thoughts.
* Time saved. When a company decides to conduct a physical meeting, time needs to be spent booking a conference room, planning for the event itself, and then waiting on the inevitable late-comers who will delay the start of the meeting. But online meetings eliminate these time-wasting moments by offering easy-to-use Web conferencing that workers can access
* Recorded meetings. Online meetings right that wrong by providing the easy option to record each conference, thereby ensuring that any potential overlap from week to week can be mitigated via a simple review of the last recorded meeting.
* Overall productivity boosts. Workers who are doing their job from home won’t have to drive into the office on meeting days, which means that the time they save driving is time that can go toward boosting enterprise productivity.
* Forward thinking. With the broad availability of cloud solutions, organizations are increasingly occupying the virtual realm. For this reason, the adoption of online meetings is only in keeping with a wider business move toward virtualizing infrastructure.
