Everyone can attend
Online meetings allow shareholders who are in lockdown, sick or otherwise unable to attend a physical venue, to attend your meeting, vote and ask questions
Everyone can speak
While physical meetings tend to favour the more vocal shareholders, a hybrid meeting can allow everyone to have a voice through moderated question time, either via an app, or teleconferencing. When logging in, attendees are either verified as shareholders or admitted as guests
Environmentally friendly
Organisations can look to reduce their carbon footprint and reduce meeting costs by not having to hire such a large venue and catering, and by reducing the amount of printing required such as poll cards and other documents
Save time and increase certainty
Having votes processed electronically not only saves time by providing results instantly, but it also increases certainty and is considered to be good governance