Many business meetings and discussions are happening online nowadays.Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

It is true that online business meetings and discussions are becoming common. Although this trend can be disadvantages to some extent, I believe that the merits are more significant.
There are some drawbacks which can be stemmed from online meetings. Firstly, people may suffer from technical problems. Online business meetings require a reliable internet connection in order to be successfully conducted. A poor network connection could result in interrupted communications. In some cases, when power cut happens, all meeting’s content may be disappeared. This causes companies great damage. Secondly, some online meetings have very little expose to face-to-face conversations, which makes people encounter difficulties to convey and understand real facial expressions. Consequently, it is hard to conduct arguments and this affects the meeting’s outcome negatively or even losing major contracts.
Nevertheless, online discussions have some positive impacts which overweight these disadvantages. First of all, people work more effectively. In fact, companies can hold the meeting anywhere without gathering all staff at on particular place. Furthermore, they are able to share documents easily and quickly without printing out. Another advantage of online discussions is time and cost efficiency. To be more specific, people can spend time at home to enjoy the meeting comfortably or do other tasks at the same time instead of traveling to the workplace. Also, companies will reduce costs for transportation, hotel accommodation and meals. The money saved could be better spent on more important aspects such as marketing, which brings more potential customers.
In conclusion, despite the drawbacks that online meetings can bring, it still does more good than harm.

Votes
Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, still, in conclusion, in fact, such as, first of all, in some cases, it is true

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 29.0 41.998997996 69% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1520.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 263.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.77946768061 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16493733713 2.80592935109 113% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.650190114068 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 468.0 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.2975951904 64% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.3737464662 49.4020404114 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.0 106.682146367 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.8421052632 20.7667163134 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.10526315789 7.06120827912 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20412809684 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0645871185966 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0791016268238 0.0667982634062 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136351750767 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0457503405794 0.056905535591 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.0946893788 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.36 50.2224549098 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.65 12.4159519038 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.2 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 9.78957915832 56% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.1190380762 71% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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