telecom & Wireless

No Fly Zone: Virtual Meetings

By Michelle V. Rafter

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Companies looking to cut sky-high travel costs are switching to online meetings, and thanks to better technology and high-speed Internet connections, they’ve got a lot to choose from.

Poor Karen Pierce Gonzalez.

Not long ago, an out-of-state client of her California public relations firm needed her at a face-to-face meeting but had cut its travel budget. To save money, the client booked her on a weekend flight with multiple stopovers from an airport that wasn’t even close to her home.

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