Latin America. It is a proven fact that teleworking is the most productive new form of collaboration of this twenty-first century. Organizations can save on travel times, per diems, current expenses and even energy. In addition, the vast majority of remote workers feel happy and therefore more committed to the company.
Here are ten powerful reasons to implement the use of video conferencing within your company NOW:
1. Nowadays, it is already possible to run video calls from practically any smartphone. Video conferencing is a reflection of email. Consumer versions like Skype, Google Hangouts, and FaceTime are free and offer a way for people to get used to them.
2. Businesses should know that cloud-based video conferencing allows for a higher level of security and privacy. They also allow more users to participate at once with optimized bandwidth, even allowing you to record meetings, upload them to a private network or keep them on a server for later review.
3. Traveling is expensive, changes an employee's routine, is sometimes annoying and tiring. For some time, people have recognized that video is an important tool to avoid long-distance travel, but we are also seeing that video can be a means of not traveling through the city. The cultural shift is occurring as we see video conferencing increasingly a productivity tool and less of a tool to avoid travel.
4. Technology won't change that great experience of bumping into a colleague walking down the aisle or seeing someone from the competition on the street. But it will ultimately help two experts, two colleagues or two clients connect no matter if they are on the other side of the world.
5. The new era of videoconferencing is approaching and fascinating: it is about rooms, offices or rooms with multiple cameras. This is based on the intelligence of the new cameras and artificial intelligence software platforms. Imagine that the cameras will be able to follow the interlocutor, if he stops, walks or if he wants to make presentations of documents, the cameras will track his actions in a timely manner, but they could also monitor the participants of the virtual meetings, from which he could obtain data and statistics of their reactions, moments of interest and boring pauses. It is the union between the Internet of Things and big data.
6. The next step of video conferencing systems has to do with ease of use or usability. It's about group video calls starting when you touch a tablet or just touch a button on the laptop. No more technical tangles with codecs and audio, video or networking settings. It is the promise to be fulfilled.
7. Experts say that we are 10 years away from having meetings with holograms and 3D cameras. Artificial intelligence points there. So your meetings with the boss will already be more than amazing, because you will have it practically in person; rumors say that enough state-of-the-art 3D glasses that at any given time will make us confuse the virtual with the real.
8. With true professionals, telecommuting increases productivity. People have fewer distractions, there is greater concentration (trigger for individual creativity); employees and independent executives work more efficiently.
9. Videoconferencing coupled with teleworking reduces office rental costs and general operating expenses. This is probably the most obvious but it is blunt; many jobs do not require physical space in an area where real estate rents are ostensibly expensive.
10. Transfers, pollution and carbon footprint are reduced. Part of a new culture responsible with ecology, videoconferencing drastically reduces the environmental impact of getting around by car or public transport in chaotic cities.
Text written by the Mexican company Multimedia.
