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Meeting in the Global Workplace: Air Travel, Telepresence and the Body

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Strengers, Yolande·2015·Mobilities
DOI 10.1080/17450101.2014.902655
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In the highly connected and globalised corporate workplace, face-to-face communication is persisting and expanding, despite significant advances and investments in telecommunication. Drawing on interviews with 34 employees from an Australian company trying to reduce air travel associated with business meetings, this paper reveals how telepresence facilitates distinctly different practices of meeting and collaborating to those enabled by face-to-face encounters. The analysis draws attention to the essential role of the body in the practices of virtual and in-person business meetings. During in-person meetings the body’s physical presence conveys meanings of respect and value, provides sensorial competency and gestures, and enables physical mobility as it carries people between and within different material environments. The paper concludes by identifying some possibilities for telepresence meetings to replicate and replace in-person meetings as a normal and effective way of collaborating in the global workplace.

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Authors
Strengers, Y.
Affiliations
RMIT University (AU)
Corresponding author
Strengers, Yolande
ORCID
Strengers, Yolande
Venue
Mobilities
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2014-04-07
Volume
10
Issue
4
Pages
592-608
ISSN
  • 1745-0101 (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-011X
DOI
10.1080/17450101.2014.902655
OpenAlex
W2061951506
Cited by
50
References
33
Citations by year
2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 3
FWCI
12.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
Locations
  • Mobilities (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • RMIT Research Repository (RMIT University Library) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Conferences and Exhibitions Management
Keywords
telepresence, business meetings, air travel, face-to-face communication, body, virtual meetings, global workplace, corporate mobility, collaboration, gesture, physical presence

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