As your co-workers listen in, they could be emailing, eating or using the toilet.
As a sign of confidence in the economy, businesses are spending more on travel.
The volume is down 11 percent.
Artist Zach Scott has created an infinite ode to the conference call at ConferenceCall.biz.
In an effort to spice up boring earnings conference calls, Yahoo added a live video stream of Marissa Mayer today. Netflix will do the same, with a twist, next week.