Visit United KingdomDespite - or because of - the forced use of virtualisation, companies are not planning to go all virtual. teleworking for more than a year. These are the findings of a survey commissioned by the British government itself. The survey was conducted earlier this year by Ipsos MORI among 465 executives. " Companies expect the proportion of employees travelling on business and the frequency of their business trips to return to just below pre-pandemic levels "summarise the authors of the report, published at the beginning of August. In detail, however, two out of five companies expect to carry out less...
Visit United KingdomDespite - or because of - the forced use of virtualisation, companies are not planning to go all virtual. teleworking for more than a year. These are the findings of a survey commissioned by the British government itself. The survey was conducted earlier this year by Ipsos MORI among 465 executives. " Companies expect the proportion of employees travelling on business and the frequency of their business trips to return to just below pre-pandemic levels "The authors of the report, published at the beginning of August, sum up. In detail, however, two out of five companies expect to travel less, with 27% planning to travel slightly less, and 14% much less. On the contrary, surprisingly, more than a quarter of respondents expect an increase in travel. In 30% of cases, the volume of journeys should remain stable.
However, the experience of videoconferencing seems to have convinced British managers on the whole. In fact, half of them (50%) now believe that meetings involving only virtual participants are an adequate substitute for face-to-face meetings. Only 28% of those surveyed disagreed with this view.
British companies have had time to get a clear picture of the advantages and disadvantages of using virtual communication. According to the survey, more than nine out of ten companies (93%) have replaced domestic business travel with virtual meetings during the crisis, with 44% replacing all travel and 41% replacing at least half.
a reduction in the proportion of journeys made by car compared with the levels reached during the pandemic
Like the results highlighted in previous surveysHowever, it is above all the use of private cars that is set to decline over the coming months. " Assuming the restrictions are no longer in place, companies expect to use a similar mix of modes of transport to before the pandemic - i.e. a return to long-distance rail and domestic air travel, and a reduction in the proportion of car journeys compared to the levels achieved during the pandemic. "the authors of the report.
