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HBR Report: Company Meetings Critical for Supporting Remote Workforces

MeetingsNet

Specifically, 71 percent of the 425 survey respondents say that a primarily remote-work model can make employees feel disconnected from the organization. In fact, 83 percent say that they themselves have gained greater awareness and empathy toward coworkers and customers as a result of in-person interactions they had to travel for.

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Top Business Travel Trends Coming in 2024

Smart Meetings

Public safety expert Frank Harrison, who serves as regional security director, Americas at World Travel Protection , predicts that three central trends will shape business travel in 2024: Remote work, a focus on sustainability and budget constraints. Remote Work & Bleisure Travel Remote work, once rare, has become commonplace.

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Go beyond remote work with InEvent

InEvent

With a little bit of creativity and reconfiguration, reimagining the remote workforce has never been easier. The workplace has … Post Go beyond remote work with InEvent showed as first in InEvent Blog. With the transformation of the world of work, industries have adapted to the changing times in many remarkable ways.

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The Psychology Behind Planning Effective Offsite Meetings

Gavel International

Reading Time: 4 minutes If your company has an onsite or remote working structure, it is very important to hold offsite meetings for employees throughout the year. These meetings serve a different purpose from their daily or weekly counterparts. Seeking a change of venue for your next corporate meeting?

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The Social Side Effects of Using Artificial Intelligence at Work

Gavel International

This effect is intensified when colleagues communicate in a virtual setting, whether that means working remotely, meeting virtually, or both. BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OF AI USED IN THE WORKPLACE Picking up the phone, let alone getting together in person, rarely happens in remote working environments.

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Sign of the Times? GE Sells its Famed Training Facility

MeetingsNet

Changes in the work environment and in the next generation’s mindset mean that in-person corporate meetings must be different—but still must happen. But it is one of those things that each of the three GE businesses will carry on in their own way,” Larry Culp, CEO of GE Aerospace, told the Wall Street Journal.

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Urban Venues Seeing Return of Group Business

Smart Meetings

We’re also seeing some ‘return to work’ celebration events, with companies looking to re-energize employees returning to an office environment after working remote for more than a year. We are primarily hosting hybrid meetings right now. of meeting space. We are booking small corporate meetings and associations for 2022.

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