Travel is often a fact of life in corporate America, but not many people relish the idea of spending time away from home, eating hotel food and dealing with travel delays just to attend a meeting in person. At the same time, the need for business communication is growing. Technology is doing its best to keep up, offering improved technology for car, rail and airline travel. But the real solution is to avoid traveling, using technology to bridge the gap. That means relying more on phone, email, messaging and collaborative technology like web conferencing, file sharing and videoconferencing. These collaborative tools allow people to share information, images and sound in real time, relieving companies and their employees of unproductive travel time.

Learn more about using collaborative technology to reduce business travel:
- read the article at IT Director
- read this on business travel tools