Research shows that business meetings, discussions and trainings are happening online nowadays. Do the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?

Technology advancement, especially the

internet

, has resulted in having more numbers of

meetings

, discussions and training through the

internet

.

Although

this

trend would bring a few drawbacks, in my opinion, it is likely to be more beneficial. On the one hand, the popularity of online communication

instead

of face-to-face may have two main advantages.

Firstly

, the possibility of misunderstanding would increase. Explaining and teaching would be more difficult and challenging because of the lack of discussion opportunities in comparison with the face-to-face.

For example

, a teacher could easily make his/her students in groups and give them a task or a topic while

this

would be more difficult through the

internet

.

Secondly

, network speed is different around the world and people who use low-speed

internet

would have some troubles during virtual

meetings

.

On the other hand

, I believe the popularity of online communication could benefit businesses more than the above-mentioned downsides. The main advantage of

this

trend is probably omitting the importance of the location. People needed to move to the place of a meeting or training that caused a huge amount of money and fossil fuels to commute, but since they can access the

internet

from everywhere and attend these

meetings

, these expenditures and energy would be saved. Another benefit is for introverts who are shy in face-to-face communication, but confident through a virtual one. They can easily get promoted by having an amazing performance. In conclusion, it seems to me that the increasing trend of having online business

meetings

, discussions and training is likely to bring more advantages than disadvantages.