Virtual meetings and trainings have become a preferred choice over offline collaborations across multiple industries. Although there are a few limitations to online meetings, I believe that the benefits over-power the shortcomings.
Virtual meetings are highly effective in industries where employees of various business units work in distant locations. For instance, a mining company has engineers in the mine, scientists and analysts in the corporate office. These employees work together to improve the output of the mine. The productivity of the team reduces with a constraint to organize regular meetings in physical location because of travel time. Therefore, planning the meetings online becomes an obvious choice in these scenarios.
Conducting trainings online aid in reducing the cost incurred by the companies. Now-a-days, teams are highly cross-functional with the team members working from various parts of the world. Attending a training physically could restrict the number of attendees due to travel barriers or scheduling conflicts. In addition to the travel time, companies have to incur the cost on providing travel fare, accommodation and boarding expenses to the employees. This might add budget restrictions and companies may not be able to send all the eligible employees for these sessions. On the contrary, online trainings can be held with very less expenditure by building the infrastructure once. The training sessions can be recorded and made accessible to all the employees for a future reference.
While conducting meetings or trainings online has a lot of advantages to offer, it comes with one disadvantage as well. People lose an opportunity to interact with others in a physical world. I think that the companies can easily overcome this limitation by encouraging offline events for the employees to meet and socialize. This concludes by stating that virtual meetings triumph offline collaborations on any given day.
Virtual
meetings
and
trainings
have become a preferred choice over offline collaborations across multiple industries. Although there are a few limitations to
online
meetings
, I believe that the benefits over-power the shortcomings.
Virtual
meetings
are
highly
effective in industries where
employees
of various business units work in distant locations.
For instance
, a mining
company
has engineers in the mine, scientists and analysts in the corporate office. These
employees
work together to
improve
the output of the mine. The productivity of the team
reduces
with a constraint to organize regular
meetings
in physical location
because
of
travel
time.
Therefore
, planning the
meetings
online
becomes an obvious choice in these scenarios.
Conducting
trainings
online
aid in reducing the cost incurred by the
companies
.
Now
-a-days, teams are
highly
cross-functional with the team members working from various parts of the world. Attending a
training
physically
could restrict the number of attendees due to
travel
barriers or scheduling conflicts.
In addition
to the
travel
time,
companies
have to
incur the cost on providing
travel
fare, accommodation and boarding expenses to the
employees
. This might
add
budget restrictions and
companies
may not be able to
send
all the eligible
employees
for these sessions.
On the contrary
,
online
trainings
can
be held
with
very
less expenditure by building the infrastructure once. The
training
sessions can
be recorded
and made accessible to all the
employees
for a future reference.
While conducting
meetings
or
trainings
online
has
a lot of
advantages to offer, it
comes
with one disadvantage
as well
.
People
lose an opportunity to interact with others in a physical world. I
think
that the
companies
can
easily
overcome this limitation by encouraging offline
events
for the
employees
to
meet
and socialize. This concludes by stating that virtual
meetings
triumph offline collaborations on any
given
day.