What I Realized About Business Travel While Standing Still in 2020: Former Road Warrior CEO

Among the topics we have written about here at Skift since the start of the pandemic, none stirs up quite as much debate as whether corporate travel is changed forever. One argument is that new technologies like Zoom will permanently replace the need for most business trips. The other side is that nothing can supplant being live and in-person to win business, especially knowing your competitors will be. To parse through all this, I decided to reach out to someone who knows a thing or two about traveling for business, Tom Glocer, the former CEO of media and data giant Thomson Reuters, where he would spend half of his year traveling. (Full disclosure: Tom is somebody I came to know and respect when I was writing about media years ago. Tom was also an early investor in Skift.) [caption id="attachment_414076" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Tom Glocer Source: Reuters[/caption] So I called Glocer recently on the phone, yes, a good, old-fashioned phone, not a Zoom call. It turns out Glocer, who now runs his own investment firm, two startups, and serves on the boards of Merck, Morgan Stanley, and Pu