Remote working software is seeing a surge in use as the spread of coronavirus moves many jobs and classes online.<\/p>\n
Microsoft’s Teams chat and conferencing app has gained more than 12 million daily users in the last seven days alone, a spokesperson for the company told The Hill on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Teams now has 44 million daily users that have produced 900 million meeting and calling minutes each day of the week.<\/p>\n
“It’s very clear that enabling remote work is more important than ever, and that it will continue to have lasting value beyond the COVID-19 outbreak,” Jared Spataro, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365, wrote in a blog post on Thursday.<\/p>\n
“We are committed to building the tools that help organizations, teams, and individuals stay productive and connected even when they need to work apart.”<\/p>\n
Remote conference service Zoom has also seen an uptick in usage as coronavirus has spread.<\/p>\n
While the company declined to provide The Hill with specific figures on usage rates, it pointed to commentary from CEO Eric Yuan during a conference call on fourth quarter earnings earlier this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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