Originally Posted by
bdschobel
That's true already to a large extent. I started working in NYC in 1990 and was expected to travel to Washington, DC, for industry meetings once or twice a month. By the time I retired in 2012, those meetings were almost entirely replaced by (far more frequent) conference calls. I didn't have to spend so much time traveling -- the travel time often took as long as the meeting itself -- and my employer saved a lot of money (not just on my travel, but on everybody's travel).
Another alternative is to reallocate employee resources to reduce travel costs. So if someone in NYC goes to SFO often we instead find someone qualified willing to work out of SFO and hire them and, hopefully for the other person, find something else for them. We just did that in fact.