Fully in-person
This is the way it all began. Especially prior to the convergence of AV and IT, in-person meetings were conducted with in-person attendees. Sometimes, these meetings occurred in corporate offices, classrooms, or hotel and convention center spaces.
Fully remote
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the world to adapt. During 2020-2021, I was employed with George Washington University. Professors were asked to pivot to remote learning overnight. Given the size of this leap, as the pandemic wore on, AV technicians and instructional designers were able to address needs and wants of professors with more and more complex technology. They had already made such a big leap, it was easier to convince them to keep going. A sea change for both fields.
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As classes slowly resumed on campus, I told professors that after 18 months of having options taken away from them, AV was here to provide technology to make any sort of class possible. Hybrid, recorded and asynchronous, in-person, or remote.
Hybrid
As of March 1, 2022, the firm I currently work for (Ropes & Gray) asked its partners, attorneys, and associates to return to the office 2-3 days a week. The trend I have noticed is that Monday and Friday tend to be slow and the middle of the week is scheduled to be very busy and about one third of those meetings get canceled.
Ropes is a global firm with offices all over the world. Hybrid meetings are scheduled to take place between conference rooms in multiple cities as well as any participants who want to join from their office desk or home. The AV team must be prepared to drop rooms from meetings at a moment's notice. There are many no shows. For this reason, even if a meeting is planned to be entirely in-person we still require the creation of a Zoom link. This allows for maximum flexibility.