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you may have seen tit all before but all companies i deal with now use teams as a meeting tool and have saved millions in travel costs sorry pal but technology is over taking airlines
I should also have added, people young and old are even returning to vinyl records. I mean, after all the so called advances with CD and mp3, the judgment is - vinyl is best. Why? Because it is analogue. Analogue tube amplifiers have been back in vogue for many years now. Face to face is the analogue equivalent of conferencing. It will never superseded by technology. Post lockdown will look very much the same as pre-lockdown and the return I think will be very fast. Look what happens now when there is a minor lifting of restrictions!
.... but you are only using teams because you are forced to. When there are no more lockdowns and all the masks are thrown away, I bet the only use of teams will be to arrange what time to meet up at the airport and arrange the hotels at the other end.
As for saving millions on your flights, less use of the company jet will save millions of course, you would be better off with business class in that case. Those Lear's are a bit over expensive these days.
big-blue - To counter your argument. The pandemic has been really difficult for my team, we sell large engineering test equipment globally. 95% of our trade is overseas predominantly ASIA.
During lockdown we had 20million pounds worth of equipment in shipping crates at sites waiting to be installed.
We normally fly a team of 10-15 engineers out to install, commission and train. We battled to try and get permissions to fly we explored routes into countries, we contemplated paying staff to quarantine in dubai before moving onto their final destination. Eventual we gave up with the idea of flying out a team.
The pandemic forced us to get creative and we invested in building up competency locally, it was a painful journey but now those markets are self sufficient it actually costs us less to install machines. The pandemic forced us to make a painful step we won't be flying as much as we used to after the pandemic.
I'm sure this story will be similar for other companies and industries, who have had to adjust to get by.
I'm not saying people won't fly again but the picture will be a bit different IAG should do fine but some airlines may be a shell of their former self in the future.
I'm looking forward to holidaying abroad again.
Of course Ghia, events lead to adaption. In some cases the forced adaption can work, in most others it doesn't and we muddle through until we can return to normal. I would imagine in your situation there has had to be a transfer of liability though. There is frequently regression to former working practices after the introduction of new methodologies and technologies. The seats on the planes you may not need in the future will be taken by others who have discovered the exact opposite to your business and will now ensure they have their people in place permanently. There will be some swings and roundabouts but the extent that some expect of this brave new world based on a few news stories on the 10 o'clock news trying to tell us all the whole world has changed has never settled in the past. You will still be going on site, otherwise you will simply loose the business and be nothing more than a widget seller. The need to retain the installation, maintenance, training and operation income I bet leads to a gradual increase in boots on the ground for you though - or at least longer visits to keep the contact alive. I've seen this many times before when engineering companies pull the on-site portakabin from the site and expect to be able to conduct business from their base with the occasional visit. They are not there to capitalise on events to get extra work, adapt to the changing schedules well and even end up incurring penalties. The number of times people have had to be put on the first flight out at any cost because there are no boots on-site doesn't bear thinking. We will see.
IMO the only one single change that has properly taken place is the establishment of the mobile phone as a non-regressive tool.
BIG BLU bud and dont go mad lol , Overt he past 2 years there has been as significant t shift in moving all it operations to the cloud , have you herd of it lol . Many companies use this system now and will be the future i.e Azure for one . Even aircraft use this system as it is maintenance free (back end ) you pay for what you use . this is a big fundamental change in the way big companies work since the mobile phone and i know most airlines now are using this instead of buying expensive hardware and expensive maintenance . like garlic bread with cheese its the future and no rola cola
The only idiot on this site is you Blue. Speedbird is correct and you are the only one who keeps telling everyone that business class travel will return with a bang. I am in the aviation business and I deal with the major players producing aircraft. I categorically state that the business travel enjoyed by their employees will be cut right to the bone. Companies have functioned perfectly well during the travel ban and only when a needs must face to face contact is required will trips be made.
Is it possible Blue can we have a little less quantity and more quality.
The only one? OK. Explains why some many are invested in an airline that has such a reliance on expensive seats then. If it is as you insist, hardly no business class then IAG would see in it's forward market research that there is no point in carrying on and call it a day. But is doesn't. And as for all this cloud business and other rosy tinted new world visions, seen it so many times before. They always end up more a problem than they appear to solve. And to all those happy to run their company and store their data on a remote server vulnerable to theft, hacking, breakdown and once the reliance is established massive price inflation, good luck. That must explain why so many smaller companies are moving their IT operations in house including their own web hosting. Yup, all hail the cloud [personal data sale begins next week].