Zoom ends WFH for workers; Users on X react asking ‘if the firm has an office’

Video conferencing platform Zoom has introduced the finish of work-from-home (WFH) and requested all of its staff to return to the workplace for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.

According to Insider, the firm has requested staff who dwell inside 50 miles of any Zoom workplace to report back to work a minimum of two days every week, primarily based on a hybrid mannequin.

“We imagine {that a} structured hybrid method — which means staff that dwell close to an workplace must be onsite two days every week to work together with their groups — is handiest for Zoom,” a spokesperson was quoted as saying.

“As an organization, we’re in a greater place to make use of our personal technologies, proceed to innovate, and assist our world clients,” it added.

Moreover, Zoom’s determination to name staff again to work sparked a number of responses on X (previously Twitter), with some questioning if Zoom even had an workplace constructing and others questioning if this was the finish of earn a living from home.

“Why does zoom have an workplace constructing?! I assumed they labored from dwelling,” a consumer wrote on X.

“What an irony? The very platform that turned our lifeline throughout distant work, Zoom, now desires its staff again in the workplace. Is the distant work period over, or is that this transfer to guard industrial actual property pursuits?,” one other consumer stated.

One consumer wrote, “kinda fascinating zoom is forcing all their staff again into the workplace the place they will in all probability use Zoom much less simply as they modify their phrases to permit AI coaching.”

According to the firm’s web site, Zoom has places of work in Denver and California in the US. It emerged as considered one of the most generally used providers for staff to speak and share concepts at the peak of the pandemic.

(With inputs from IANS)