It will come as no surprise that demand for video conferencing has dramatically increased over the past few weeks. Microsoft Teams has seen over 900 million minutes a day of calls generated by 44 million daily users over the space of a single week. Similar growth has been seen by Zoom which has jumped from 10 million to 200 million daily meeting participants, and who’s valuation has grown by over 50% in the last month.

COVID-19 has made employees to work from home and businesses, notoriously slow to transform, to look for ways to continue to operate with a dispersed team. Video conferences used to be hard and expensive requiring a company to buy dedicated hardware with fixed capacity. Now cloud services have done away with all that and replaced it with very affordable, or free, subscriptions instead. The most important thing to hold this together is the network infrastructure. Nobody wants broken audio, frozen video, or dropped sessions so your team must have the right connectivity to make it work. Consider fibre connections into the homes and remote offices for greater reliability and bandwidth than wireless broadband services.