A picture of the future

With a widespread return to the office planned for the coming month, at least on a part-time basis, Jason Walsh asks if the gains made in collaboration and video conferencing technology will wither away

Jared Huet, director, Avitor

Zoom parties may have been consigned to the scrapheap of history but, given the sheer amount of investment made in it, the video conferencing and collaboration technology that allowed work to continue despite lockdowns will remain a fixture of the working world.

Indeed, Zoom itself is now worth an estimated $83.62 billion, while Microsoft is successfully promoting Teams for office collaboration. Cisco recently announced an interoperability agreement with Google, indicating that it wants to see ...