While most companies are still struggling to stay alive in the current pandemic, many tech companies are starting to look beyond the pandemic to a digital workplace that has been drastically changed by COVID-19.The pandemic has created numerous difficulties, especially with the new challenge of remote working as a rule rather than the exception it was before the pandemic, and companies like Zoom, Slack, Google and Microsoft have all risen to the challenge in their different ways.
It is now generally accepted that the future workplace will be hybrid with some employees working from home and others from the physical workplace and others straddling both. In a survey of 12,000 professionals, 60% of employees said that they want flexibility in where and when they work (Boston Consulting Group). To address this, San Jose, Calif.-based Zoom has added updates to its Rooms software that will make business meetings easier and the workplace safer. In sum this addresses the problem of employee