The future of business travel

I traveled for work for the first time in a year and a half. One of our partner companies had a team all-hands in Chicago and invited us to do a presentation. It was an amazing experience and I was stoked for the opportunity to travel again.

We presented an Equity 101 session for stock options and had some great feedback from the crowd afterwards. Since the pandemic started, I’ve done many presentations via Zoom and it just never compares to doing things live in person. I had a lot of fun and I got the chance to meet with a lot of our clients as well.

At the beginning of the pandemic, there were a lot of bold predictions around the future of business travel. Many thought that business travel would be dead forever as we go to fully remote. I don’t believe that. After a year and half of not meeting in person, I’m more convinced than ever that people will still travel for work and do it quite a bit.

I do think there’ll be less travel in some ways. Perhaps flying for a weekly one hour client meeting isn’t going to continue given the effectiveness of Zoom, but now that people and companies are going fully distributed, I imagine that we’re going to start to see a lot more get togethers in cities much more often.

At Secfi, we are starting to hire remote from all over the country, but we will have much more frequent get togethers in San Francisco and New York. I’ve spoken to quite a few companies and it appears that this will become the standard in the future.