Does Teleconferencing Really Improve Productivity?
Teleconferencing and Productivity: Enemies or Allies?
by Andreas Krebs – Does teleconferencing really improve productivity? From a macro point of view, the advantages of remote meetings have led to increasing adoption by the business sector at large: conference call specialist InterCall tracks a steady increase in corporate users using mobile phones to join conference calls: 2011’s 19.4% of all calls grew steadily to 21.2% two years later.
These callers report saving on travel and accommodations; shrugging off travel-related delays; getting staff together quicker; and saving time overall.
But when you drill down to the personal level, the advantages of teleconferencing seem far more mixed. The same InterCall study found that teleconferencing participants tended to be focused on other things. 65 percent work on other things besides the meetings, with about 47 percent saying they’ve gone to the bathroom in the middle of a conference call, and about a third of participants admitting to falling asleep mid-meeting!
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