Face to face meetings - no travel required

In the “no commute at all” category, the New York Times has a good high-level survey of teleconferencing technology today.  Predictably, the cost of high-end systems from Cisco and HP is dropping quickly and lower cost solutions like WebEx are becoming ubiquitous.  The article quotes a customer service trainer at Subaru who estimates she now reaches 2,500 people every six months instead of 220 at a cost of $.75 per person instead of $300.

It’s a bit facetious to state, but ‘not going’ is by far the cheapest form of transportation and it’s an increasingly valid choice for a lot of business travel, whether by air or road.