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Why You Need to Embrace Online Meetings
Come for the Good Ideas. Stay for the Better Work Conditions
Many people have a conflicted relationship with business meetings. The good ones accomplish a lot and leave us with a clear sense of purpose. The bad ones waste time we will never get back again.
Something curious happens, though, when you bring up the topic of online meetings. The very same people who complain about pointless meetings suddenly wax poetic about in-person ones. As a remote worker, I find this is especially true of people who work predominantly in a traditional office. “There’s just something about sitting in the same room together,” I’ve been told. “I get my best work done when I can brainstorm with people face to face.”
Maybe you feel the same way. If so, here are some reasons why you should jump on the online meeting train anyway.
Flexible Work Hours
People want more flexible work hours. Clutch, a B2B research firm, conducted a survey of 507 full-time employees, and found that flexible hours are the most popular employee perk. This may or may not explain the results GlobalWorkplaceAnalytics.com found in their data. As of 2016 4.3 million US employees work from home at least half of the time, and the overall telecommuter population grew by 11.7%. Flexible hours usually work best if you…
