Chapter 16Making Your Presence Count
Someone, somewhere is attending a meeting of some sort at the very moment you are reading this page. Studies have indicated that there are 11 million business meetings every day around the world. A white paper released by Verizon confirms that meetings dominate business life in America today, with 37 percent of employees spending their time in meetings.
Imagine what it would be like if your organization had a workforce spread out across the country, or around the globe, and everyone had to attend meetings in person. It simply wouldn’t work. It would be too expensive. Even if your organization can afford it, it would be too taxing for your people.
What does work is using the latest conferencing technologies for virtual meetings that give you a face-to-face meeting experience. You stay productive and reduce your travel costs.
Skype for Business is a robust communication and conferencing solution in Office 365. The presence feature in the technology alone can translate to substantial time and cost savings by streamlining the process of information exchange between information workers.
For example, let’s say, you’re working on a project and you need input from five team members. You know that emailing them is not the most efficient way to gather feedback because
You know your email will be ...
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