Originally Posted by Error 601

As far as Canadian business travel goes, it's my suspicion that insane hotel rates are becoming an issue as already brutally austere travel policies alone can no longer keep costs down.

In general I think it depends on what you're doing and what investments were actually made and what skills were developed by the rank and file.

I'm working on a project right now as a consultant and three of the four vendors who presented showed-up in person from Denver, Vancouver and Toronto while one Zoomed in from Edmonton in what might be described as the "Worst Zoom Call with Grandma Ever". Their proposal is strong, but their presentation was ridiculously bad.

The client's incumbent security vendor is the same, painful Teams calls, screen sharing their NHL bracket window, lots of background noise as they're taking calls from their bullpen.

I think remote work has created some bad habits as people come to treat external or customer contacts exactly the same as their remote team.

And those guys need to get on a plane.