coppercapped
Established Member
Exactly.Until technology gets around to usable 3d holographic projections, or Jedi force ghosts become an actual thing, people will travel in order to spend quality face-to-face time with colleagues and contacts to get their jobs done. Teams, Zoom and Skype all fulfil a specific purpose and they have their part to play in reducing the need to travel but they can only go so far.
I used to work in hardware product engineering for a northern California-based personal computer manufacturer. With all the facilities for high quality tele-working it was still more effective to meet face-to-face quite frequently. Sometimes small changes needed design, cost and marketing inputs from a range of people - not just those in engineering. Trying to arrange this at a distance - with the complication of an 8 hour time shift - was extraordinarily difficult, even though all the participants were confident users of teleconferencing.
The conclusion that I came to was that teleconferencing works well for day-to-day management issues and for much software development. For hardware product development it has severe limitations.
Horses for courses.