Consider Alice,who is a staff member in a computer science department in New Zea

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Consider Alice,who is a staff member in a computer science department in New Zealand .She applies for a job at a university in the UK and is invited to travel to the UK for a three-hour interview. Alice sends an-email to HR department asking whether it would be possible for her to be interviewed using video conferencing facilities . She points out that this will not only save her a huge amount of flying time and money ,but also will alleviate streess, and avoiding long journeys. Do you believe that people should be willing to adapt to the use of such videoconferencing technology ? Is this an ethical issue ?

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Also I think the interviewing company is stuck in the Dark Ages if they aren't about saving time and money - even if it does not impact on them. While it is the applicant's choice to apply to a company in another country, it seems to me an IT company should be more than willing to make use of technology that saves time. So what if this person flies to the UK, is there for the interview - and it gets cancelled for some reason and they can't immediately reschedule? Is she out all that time and money for nothing? I really don't see an ethical dilemma here, but if I was applying and the company was not willing to use videoconferencing technology for the interview, I would be crossing them off the list without a second thought. If they are that unwilling to use the technology, and not at all concerned about the impact a long and expensive journey would have on a potential employee, they sure aren't going to give a rosy rotund rodent's rump about that person if they were hired. I think the environmental aspect of this is pretty inconsequential.

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