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Article: Eyeball to Eyeball, at A Distance: Business travel: How videoconferencing may provide the alternative in a time of anxiety and fear.(Global Enterprise)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- October 15, 2001
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Craig Brandofino, who runs videoconferences for the New York accounting firm Ernst & Young, was looking for ways to leverage the firm's top-of-the-line system. Only half its capacity was in use at any one time. The Sept. 11 attacks changed all that. Not only is the system now running full bore, but Brandofino says he has a waiting list: "Use has skyrocketed."
Business trips are among the terrorists' victims. A Sept. 18 survey of U.S. corporations found that 58 percent planned to reduce travel in the coming months. And it's not all top-down decisions. One New Jersey firm hired Video Corp. of America to set up a videoconference in place of a long-scheduled meeting because, ...
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