Video conferencing can help prevent the risk of exposure to illness from traveling

Posted on Tandberg Blog and Written by Jeannie on October 29th, 2009

1. Minimize Business Travel – Whether you travel by planes, trains or automobiles, traveling puts you at increased risk to exposure to illness. HD video conferencing is a proven alternative that is just as good as being there, but doesn’t come with the added risk. It’s more cost-effective too.
2. Maximize Teleworking Productivity – When you need to telework to prevent the spread of illness, or to take care of a sick loved one, being visually enabled with video conferencing helps maintain productivity by enabling face-to-face collaboration to keep you engaged while working from home.
3. Minimize High Risk Exposure – Some businesses have instituted a 48 hour (the incubation period for the H1N1 virus) work from home policy for employees who simply couldn’t avoid air travel as a measure to minimize risk to the rest of the workforce. For those people, remote video conferencing solutions help them maintain business as usual.
4. Highly Effective Crisis Communications – In the event that your business needs to implement its business continuity plan, the most effective and reassuring method for communication is in-person. Video allows managers to deliver direction and important information face-to-face, when in-person isn’t possible.
5. Meetings On-Demand – Video tools that support recording, archiving and streaming of video for playback at any time are essential for ensuring that key people stay informed, even when they can’t be there.