Global spread of remote working solutions

COVID19 has forced a sharp increase in the adoption of remote working solutions across the world. Zoom’s daily participants have risen from 10 million[1] in December 2019 to 300 million[2] in April 2020. Microsoft Teams’ daily active users have risen by 70%[3] [4]in the two months since March 2020. ‘Work from home’ may well be the norm for the foreseeable future. Here is a look at the global proliferation of the top 26 online applications to date.

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Sagnik Chakraborty is Researcher, Cybersecurity Studies, and Manager, Management Office, Gateway House.

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References

[1] Yuan, Eric S., ‘A message to our users’, Zoom, https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/a-message-to-our-users/

[2] Zoom, ’90-Day Security Plan Progress Report: April 22′, https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/22/90-day-security-plan-progress-report-april-22/

[3] Sitaram, Murali, ‘Connect people across the entire organization through communities in Microsoft Teams’, Microsoft, 20 April, 2020,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/04/20/connect-people-across-entire-organization-through-communities-microsoft-teams/

[4] Spataro, Jared, ‘2 years of digital transformation in 2 months’, Microsoft, 30 April 2020,

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/04/30/2-years-digital-transformation-2-months/