November 20
The Waning Days of the Road Warrior
Taken from businessweek.com:
Across the U.S., companies as varied as Advanced Micro Devices, Xerox, Cisco Systems, AstraZeneca, and Adecco are cutting internal business travel (grinding from corporate office to office) by as much as 50%.
The super surge in oil prices and resulting spike in airfares is just one reason companies are ordering their road warriors home.
How times have changed. Back in the day—say, eight years ago—road warriors measured status by how many frequent-flier miles they accrued, their admission to VIP lounges, and all the cool people they met at conferences.
