Business travel is back on the agenda for Australian professionals but some of the country’s largest employers say many work trips will be replaced with video calls after they embraced the technology during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wesfarmers managing director Rob Scott said executives and managers at his Perth-headquartered conglomerate had resumed inter-state travel, with there being ”no substitute” for person-to-person contact to build relationships and monitor how the business was operating . Telstra’s group executive for transformation, communications and people Alex Badenoch said the past 12 months had shown that the telco’s staff “don’t need to be working in the office together to innovate”.
However Jamie Pherous, managing director of the $2.7 billion ASX-listed Corporate Travel Management, said he was confident the pandemic would not have a long-term effect on domestic business travel demand. He expects corporate travel across the 23 global market Flight Centre operates in to only recover to 80 to 85 per cent of pre-COVID levels by 2024, even after COVID-19 is no longer deemed a threat.
Virtual technology is the future, less business trips reduce a companies carbon footprint. Business travel in most large companies has been reduced by 50% already. Wish all parliament members also use technology more and stop flying around and report their carbon footprint.
IMHO in the future, I’m sure you can revise this strategy. Business trips are important.
Not required. Do they have skilled english? Hire local talent.
We need a Federal Government who will make decisions that will keep the public safe
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