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.
Zoom recently announced such features as part of its physical, enterprise conference room product, called Zoom Rooms. 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 also introduced an appliance that monitors the room’s air quality, humidity levels, carbon dioxide levels and temperature. Users in the room can control videoconferencing through their personal mobile device and voice to minimize touching common surfaces.
