Research shows that business meetings, discussions and training are happening online nowadays. Do the advantages outweigh disadvantages?

Research carried out recently have pointed out that there is significant rise in the number of annual business conferences and employee training conducted online. There are both viable merits and demerits about this new way of working, thanks to the prevalent of information technological update in every company. In this essay, I will look at both sides of the argument.

Let us start by looking at the advantages of the notion of online meetings in general. First of all, by not having to travel all the way to the business conducting point, a significant amount of time and cost are saved. This also applies to training activities, especially in the case of global firms and organizations. Without the internet, most of their foreign employees would have to take part in a dead long period of training time if online training was not available. For example, my company's branch in Vietnam arranges meetings with the directors in Japan via Skype. Furthermore, since the meetings and training sessions are online, all the learning and business materials are uploaded and downloadable through a few clicks. Not to mention, people can attend the discussions while they are at home or in office, further satisfaction and convenience are reached.

On the other hand, some types of training require participants' direct involvement, For example, in the case of on-the-job training for hotel service, waiters are given a set of orders to follow by their hotel's manager to ensure adequate customers' satisfaction. Hence, waiters can not acquire these skills online but offline. In addition, by being presentable in every meetings, it shows high commitment to the job offered. Also, the cultural value of the organization should be demonstrated face-to-face to trainees with passion and enthusiasm in order to create or change the mindset to fit in with the company's goal.

In conclusion, there are different facets to be considered whether every firms and company should adopt this new way of business conduct. Personally, I think it is the best if managers can find the balance between online and offline conferences to achieve the ideal job performance.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 185, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'following'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'order' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: following
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Line 5, column 238, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'customers'' or 'customer's'?
Suggestion: customers'; customer's
...their hotels manager to ensure adequate customers satisfaction. Hence, waiters can not ac...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, if, look, so, thus, while, for example, i think, in addition, in conclusion, in general, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 41.998997996 155% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1807.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 349.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1776504298 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32221490584 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88203439976 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590257879656 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 567.9 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2188988093 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.9375 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8125 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.875 7.06120827912 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.170308233488 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0486939964189 0.084324248473 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0369315414634 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0870742167947 0.151304729494 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350175453981 0.056905535591 62% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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