Zoom Fatigue Finally Revives Travel for In-Person Company Meetings
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Internal meetings were supposed to be killed off by video conferencing, but it looks like in-person face-to-face will be back with a bang this year.
When a company as large as Shopify, circa 10,000 employees, declares it is banning meetings that involve more than two people, change is afoot.
The remote work-friendly firm, which builds software to help companies sell products online, wants to save the sanity of its staff who are being burdened by an overload of virtual meetings. This operational shift, which will affect only recurring meetings, will eliminate 10,000 company events, equivalent to 76,500 hours of meetings, according to Fortune magazine.
Experts now predict a resurgence in business travel following widespread video conferencing and online meeting fatigue, as organizations settle into better hybrid-work practices.
“We are seeing a significant increase in internal in-person meetings from our enterprise Fortune 1,000 clients,” said Ciaran Delaney, CEO and founder of booking platform Hubli. “These meetings have an average of 32 attendees and grew by 515 percent in 2022 versus the previous year.”
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