2nd Life for work???

Interesting looking at this. I was asked by my manager to look at this because she was invited into a meeting, that required an avatar. She said, apparently, many places that she deals with are now using 2nd life for meetings.
This seemed odd to me until she had explained that peoples attention is increased in these virtual meetings because, they have to control their character. Because of this, they need to focus on the meeting instead of checking emails, playing iPhone games, etc. It also allows more face to face type of interaction, and can cut costs of travel.

http://work.secondlife.com/en-US/whyslwork/

I havent visited much on TR recently, so if this has already been covered — oh well.