No Meetings on the Table - Interesting article by Ben Stein

Actor & writer Ben Stein recently wrote his take on the Wall Street Journal's recent issue about the government "clamping down on business meetings." The government is urging organizations not to spend money on business meetings (meetings including travel and taxpayer dollars) when they could use technology such as video conferencing to conduct meetings.

Stein's bottom line: Business meetings had/have nothing to do with our current downturned economy. As he points out at the end of the article, "Meetings and business travel did not cause this recession. Kicking the hospitality and travel industry in the face and not allowing smart people to share their intelligence will not do anyone any good at all."

View the entire article here.