As Travel Costs Rise, More Meetings Go Virtual
| July 22, 2008 |  View for printing |
Jill Smart, an Accenture executive, was skeptical the first time she stepped into the consulting firm’s new videoconferencing room in Chicago for a meeting with a group of colleagues in London. But the videoconferencing technology, known as telepresence, delivered an experience so lifelike, Ms. Smart recalled, that “10 minutes into it you forget you are not in the room with them.”
The technology consulting firm has installed 13 of the advanced videoconferencing rooms at its offices around the world and plans to have an additional 22 operating before the end of the year.
By STEVE LOHR
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