TAKEPLACE: TELEPRESENCE ROBOTS SET TO REPLACE FACE TO FACE MEETINGS

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

TELEPRESENCE ROBOTS SET TO REPLACE FACE TO FACE MEETINGS

Face-to face meetings are important. According to Harvard Business Review, they help management teams root out negligence, increase productivity, provide a positive competitiveness, and deepen relationships with colleagues.

So it's not surprising that Americans took 427 million business trips last year. According to the Global Business Travel Assn., the bill for all this traveling to provide face-to-face contact between clients and companies was $228 billion. WARROOM

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