Video conferencing has
become more popular in recent years and the widespread use of mobile devices has further
improved its popularity. It also offers a lot of
benefits to businesses. For instance, you can hold video conferencing meetings
with your mobile workers. These meetings don’t require them to go to the
office. You can also check the whereabouts and activities of your employees if
you are apprehensive about their honesty. Aside from improved productivity and reduced
costs, video conferencing also offers other benefits. Here are some of them.
Improved Teleworking
Video
conferencing improves teleworking or working from home or other locations. If
your workforce works from home and your business has an open timetable, video
conferencing can help limit the lack of upward reporting and interaction in
your staff.
Save on Travel Expenses
Traveling from one place to another to meet new people, train, attend
meetings or conduct presentations is expensive. It also wastes a lot of time
that could have been used to do more tasks. With video conferencing, you don’t
need to worry about getting dressed and spending money on gas or public transportation.
You can save a lot of money on fare and avoid losing crucial working hours.
Promote Human Interaction
Video conferencing humanizes conversations. Human interaction is very
important when it comes to business and seeing others and showing yourself to other
people is a good way to do this. It makes the conversation more personal and
helps you build stronger relationships with your workforce and customers.
Productive Meetings
Video conferencing eliminates the costs and logistics associated with on-site
meetings, so you can definitely have more productive meetings. On-site meetings
require you to prepare a conference room and food. With video conferencing, you
don’t need to worry about such matters.
Your workforce can attend meetings from anywhere without significant interruptions
to their schedule. This also means that you can schedule meetings easily and
quickly.
Easier Hiring Process
Video conferencing allows face-to-face interviews, so it helps speed up
the hiring process. Phone interviews and traveling to the office for closing
interviews are not only costly, but also time-consuming. You don’t need to
worry about such hassles with video conferencing.
Conduct
Demonstrations
Video
conferencing allows you to conduct demonstrations of your products or services.
You can also introduce new hires, show an antique or your new dress or do just
about anything. Video conferencing allows you to show things that you can’t
keep in your suitcase such as a property you have to sell or a location you are
trying to promote.
Just
keep in mind that video conferencing requires a higher bandwidth than a simple video call.
Regardless
of your company’s size, you can benefit from video conferencing. A decent quality
video usually requires 1 Mbps for every participant. You should consider this
as the minimum value if you need HD video quality. All participants should have
the same connectivity supplies as well. Some of the most popular video
conferencing tools today are Skype, Google Hangouts and TeamViewer. Choose the
video conferencing tool that best suits your needs.
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