Using video conferencing for everything

What: Video conferencing tools were seeing huge rise in number of participants when lockdown orders were being enforced due to COVID-19. Zoom saw an increase from 10 million daily participants in Dec, 2019 to 300 million participants in April, 2020.

So What: The almost overnight switch forcing people to work from home pushed a lot of companies to quickly adopt new tools to allow for meetings to take place solely using video conferencing software.

Deep Dive:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21242421/zoom-300-million-users-incorrect-meeting-participants-statement

This article is part of Emerging Futures of Remote Work – An Institute for the Future Signals Report for The Remote Lab