The concept of virtual events has been introduced recently. During the time of Covid-19 people first did focus on working online. In the last two years, everything evolved from one mode to another. No one has ever thought that they have to do their work online from their own house. With the sudden change, everyone was perplexed at first but did cope with it over time. In this period, everyone has gone through a lot of changes. Every field has chosen this one way to reach out to the people.
All the organizations have adopted this new method to keep up their work. it is a very convenient way, a very useful fact of this mode is, that no one has to relocate and work for a particular company. Everyone can get access to and continue their work. Its outrageous benefits have given a vast amount of advantages that everyone like you can use for the growth of their career. But all things, regardless of good or bad have pros and cons. If you want to take the advantages, then you have taken them with the disadvantages too.
Like the same way virtual events, which became very useful in this time, also have both sides at the same time. By using virtual events an organization has benefitted in a lot of aspects.
Some pros of virtual events are –
1. Less time taking:
It is mostly compulsory for every employee to attend an office event and sometimes they have to travel a long distance to attend it. Employees invest a large amount of their time in the office, during work hours. But attending an event in some other places can be a little inconvenient for the employees. If they can work online then they can also attend the event online too. For this, no one has to travel from one place to another and still the notion is fulfilled. Along with that, it is seen that online events are usually fast-growing than the real ones. With this virtual event, you get to save a ton of time and focus on some different work too.
2. Cost-effective:
A virtual event doesn’t require a large amount of money to execute this. It saves a bulk amount of money for the company and helps to make a profit out of it. An offline event requires a lot of things and needs to do a vast amount of arrangements. A company has to take care of the venue, transportation, work-related expenses, and so many other things. It takes a lot to hold an event offline, but it requires zero elements in the online shows. It is one of the biggest pros of virtual events.
3. Easy planning and arrangement:
Virtual events are extremely easy to arrange. It doesn’t take much to execute because there are not many things that needed to be taken care of. On the other hand, an offline show can be very complicated. You need to prepare for it for a longer time, look for a venue, and arrange all the other things that help to fulfill an offline event and so on. And an online event can be arranged within an hour and smoothly executed too.Just like so many pros, it has cons too.
Some cons of virtual events are –
1. Isolation:
It is vastly seen, that whenever a person is done with their speech they get isolated and don’t feel like participating in the event. An offline event is a mode of activity when your presence and participation are mandatory elements. It is a disadvantage of a virtual event. Most of the time, people don’t feel connected with the event and get disinterested easily. Another thing with this is, as a community, it doesn’t grow in a virtual event.
2. Limited interaction:
When the event is conducted in online method people tend to get into trouble with interacting with each other. In an online show, people are bounded by limited interactions. Here, only the spoke person can speak at one time and it is absolutely their choice that, whom they want to talk to. Other people present at the event might feel left out here and loses the urge to continue the show. In an online event, you can’t have chat with anyone, thus you fail to build a social network. Events are a very effective way of interacting with other people and having a conversation. It is one kind of the main source to build up your network and in a virtual event, it becomes worthless.
3. Difficult to hold attention:
The biggest problem of a virtual event is to hold the attention of the attendees. After a few times it gets extremely monotonous, and people show their disinterest to attend the show. It is a kind of event that doesn’t require your complete activity. Mostly, the host of the event talks about things that are needed to be discussed or informed. Other than that, the rest of the people don’t have many things to do or contribute. Besides, people’s focus gets derived a lot of time when they are attending a virtual event.
Just like virtual events are helpful a lot of times, they also become a barrier in many aspects. People need to adopt both things and use them wisely in the needed time.
