In modern business, many people lack face-to-face interaction. Face time allows for reading body language and gauging interest. It can also deepen personal relationships and provide insight into working conditions.
In a modern business environment, your employer may be the voice on the other end of the phone, your colleagues may be an email series, and your customer may be an online order form. Many people can literally go their entire workday without a single real-life interaction with another human being. The idea of actually having a live conversation with another person in the same space is often called face time.
Spending quality time with an elusive employer or remote work colleague can be very difficult to schedule, but it also has some advantages over more impersonal communications. One advantage is the ability to read each person’s body language and facial expressions to gauge interest in the proposition or topic under discussion. An email or phone conversation may be more convenient than free time, but participants may not be able to tell whether others are truly engaged or just being polite.
Some people refer to face time as flesh space, a play on both personal encounters and the presence of real human beings. An engineer who mostly works out of the house might need to plan some “meat space” with his boss to discuss an upcoming project, for example.
Quality face-to-face time can also be described as face-to-face time, as in the case of a corporate executive who decides to visit a factory. Instead of being relatively isolated in an office, he might want to meet the employees who actually make the products in person. By spending time with real machinists or assembly workers, an employer might get a better idea of company morale or working conditions.
Face time can also apply to family dynamics and personal relationships. Parents who schedule quality time with their children can help deepen their emotional bonds. Online chat rooms and instant messages can give participants the illusion of real-world interaction, but real-life friendships benefit significantly from personal interactions.
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