Research shows that business meetings, discussions and training are happening online nowadays. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Recently, online

platforms

are used for

business

purposes

such

as

meetings

, discussions, and training. Through online

platforms

,

participants

in the meeting could save their

time

and energy which could be unnecessarily wasted if the

meetings

are done

face

to

face

.

However

,

in contrast

to

this

advantage, there is a

possibility

that online

meetings

could weaken the bonding between

team

members

. In my opinion, these disadvantages outweigh the advantages because when the

group

project is gone through online, there could be a

possibility

of misunderstanding between

business

members

.

To begin

with, if workplace

meetings

are held online, attendees might save their

time

and effort. To be specific, when the

meetings

go through

face

to

face

, there is a dilemma that all meeting

members

’ schedules should be taken into consideration.

However

, if the gatherings are conducted online, the

members

will have no difficulty in arranging each member’s timetables.

Furthermore

, there will be less

possibility

of being restricted by

time

and place while using online

platforms

, because all the

participants

can join the

meetings

, anytime they want.

As a result

, attendants in the

meetings

can save unnecessarily wasted

time

and procedures.

For example

, in 2016, Kakao changed its internal regulation so that the workers in the

group

proceeded with their

meetings

through Zoom for effective performance.

This

change led Kakao to maximize

business

efficiency for employees.

On the other hand

, online

meetings

may cause the relationships between

team

members

to weaken. If

business

gatherings are conducted online, there is a more

possibility

that the

members

who attend the

meetings

feel a sense of distance from each other compared to direct encounters, which will lead to a lack of communication.

However

, to deal with diverse problems occurring in a company, honest communications between coworkers are essential factors. Through

face

-to-

face

conversation, they will share new ideas and innovative thinking, which will be developed into decent solutions.

In addition

, another problem of online

meetings

is that they make individuals focus on only their work and be careless with others’ work, which

also

worsens the teamwork among workers.

For example

, a research

team

found that companies that mainly used Zoom as a method of

group

discussions went through difficulties because of inaccurate communication between co-workers. In my opinion, I strongly agree with

this

idea because while working on the

group

project online, there is a chance that

business

participants

would misunderstand one another. To summarize,

participants

in the conference could conserve their

time

and energy by using online

platforms

rather than meeting in person, which could result in unnecessary

time

and energy waste. Online

meetings

may have

this

advantage, but there is a chance that they could

also

make

team

members

less bonded.