[HN] Zoom is making its staff return to the office

I mean if their own company can not run on the zoom software is it even worth it for everyone else.

P.R stunt would be, "Zoom employees all work from home via Zoom because it offers the best experience for all."

Instead it makes me think their software isn't that great at what it's touted for.

Obviously hands on server maintenance etc you need to do to the place to do the work, but meetings etc all Zoom.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In a statement, Zoom said it’s now enforcing a “structured hybrid approach,” meaning that employees who live near an office “need to be onsite two days a week” because it’s “most effective” for the video-conferencing service.

We’ll continue to leverage the entire Zoom platform to keep our employees and dispersed teams connected and working efficiently,” the company said.

In recent months, Google, Amazon and Salesforce have enacted similar policies, ending a Covid-era approach that gave employees more freedom to work from home.

Last week, it asked Cabinet agencies to bring federal workers back into the office more frequently in the coming months, according to an internal email obtained by CNN.

More than most companies, the videoconferencing service came to define the early days of the pandemic, as many turned to its platform to video chat with friends and colleagues during lockdowns.

By mid-2020, Zoom reported skyrocketing revenue fueled by a spike in business customers from the many companies forced to turn to remote work.

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