Video conferencing offers clear benefits to business users, including better collaboration, faster decision-making, lower times to market and cost-effective, face-to-face meetings. But many managers have a hard time getting employees to warm up to video technology at the office. Although many employees are familiar with video in their personal lives – making ready use of video recording capabilities on smart phones, as well as consumer video applications such as Skype for personal communications with family and friends – they often resist using the technology for workplace meetings and collaboration.