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Saves money: it can lower your expenses as there is no need for all the costs involved with travelling, such as accommodation and tickets |
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Saves space: you can video conference with many more people than would fit into a single meeting room because each party will be using their own facilities |
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Saves time: video conference communication and meetings are often much shorter in total as no travel is involved. A meeting that may take you away for days from work due to travel, may take only one or two hours using a video conference |
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Encourages communication: you can communicate more regularly with people in other districts or countries, which would usually be costly or impossible if you had to travel |
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Generates ideas: a telephone call or e-mail is not always the best way to communicate with another person. Interactive meetings can help to generate ideas, and enable people to read and react to others' sensitivities |
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Encourages collaboration: video conferencing allows for collaboration by document sharing. Many people in different areas can work on the same project and make contributions |
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Shares information: many institutions can receive the same broadcast simultaneously, and thus a much greater level of participation can be gained. For example, a lecture being broadcast to students at many different educational institutions |
