Microsoft also found that its users are also spending more time of the day with Teams. Microsoft says this may be due to the availability of fast broadband. The Microsoft team also looked at where people use video most, with Norway and the Netherlands leading the pack. That’s a lot of time spent in meetings that could’ve probably been used in more productive ways, but it sure is a lot of Teams meetings. Overall, the number of users who go on camera has doubled since before this crisis began, and the overall number of video calls in Teams grew by more than 1,000% in March. During those meetings, more users than ever also turned on their video cameras. Now, less than a month later, it says that it saw a new daily record of 2.7 billion meetings in one day on March 31. We’d already heard some updates from Zoom and Google, but today Microsoft joined the parade with a new report on how its Teams users have adapted to the rise of remote work.īack on March 16, the company reported 900 million meeting minutes in Teams. With the COVID-19 pandemic making work from home the default for those companies that are able to do so, it’s no surprise that we are seeing a massive rise in the usage of video chat tools like Zoom, Google Meet and Teams.

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