In a December 2020 survey of HR leaders by Gartner, 90 percent of respondents said they intended to allow employees to continue to work remotely at least part of the time. Users in the room can control videoconferencing through their personal mobile device and voice to minimize touching common surfaces.Īs employees return to the office, it's important to 'not only enhance the productivity and well-being of the employees but also reinforce the perception that the company is providing a safe work environment,' said Jeff Smith, head of Zoom Rooms. Zoom also introduced an appliance that monitors the room's air quality, humidity levels, carbon dioxide levels and temperature. The new features can monitor the number of people in a workplace's conference room and display that information on a monitor outside the room, so people know if it's at capacity before going in. Zoom recently announced such features as part of its physical, enterprise conference room product, called Zoom Rooms.

As companies plan to accommodate a hybrid workforce, vendors of communications and collaboration products are adding features to keep onsite employees safe and healthy and help remote and office-based colleagues work together.

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