'Still experimenting' | Zoom tells own staff: 'Time for office return'

Video conferencing firm Zoom, which has been at the forefront of the widescale global move to remote working, announced this week that its staff would be returning to the office – at least part time.

The company confirmed that it would adopt a hybrid working model going forward, after the results of an internal survey revealed that just one per cent of its workforce wanted to return to the office full time.

Zoom, which saw sales and uptake of its software platform soar in the last three months of 2020 by up to 370%, said that it would ‘strategically mix remote and in-office working’, but admitted that finding such a balance was ‘not easy’, according to reports by the BBC.

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Its internal employee poll also discovered that more than half of its staff preferred the concept of a hybrid approach of both office and home working, with the remainder favouring or already working fully remotely.