Germany: with the crisis, videoconferencing becomes a serious alternative to business trips

s: the crisis and the development of CSR practices have a growing influence on business trips. This is what comes out of the annual report (2009 business trip report) of the business travel association (VDR). The document, based, among others, on a survey carried out in March/April 2009 among 86,000 businesses, shows that although CSR is only truly improving in medium-size and large businesses (46%), almost 66% of German businesses now use videoconference. (Ref. 090711)

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