Families held Zoom memorial services when they couldn't gather together to honor the loved ones they lost. They learned to give themselves haircuts and facials. People celebrated weddings and bar mitzvahs. So did court proceedings and presidential campaigns. The Coronavirus Crisis Party On, Online: Virtual Beer Pong Becomes An Emotional Lifeline For Workersįitness classes, happy hours and club DJs moved to Zoom. "This is what we started to see happening sort of gradually and then, all of a sudden, it really exploded for us." "People were thinking, 'Oh my gosh, I still need my children to take their tutoring lesson' or 'I still want to take my yoga class,'" Steckelberg said. Schools were setting up virtual classrooms, so Zoom started offering educational accounts. By mid-March, businesses across the world were doing the same and looking for ways to keep working remotely.
Zoom had sent its own workforce home two weeks earlier. "Almost overnight, the demand grew exponentially," she told NPR. Kelly Steckelberg, the company's chief financial officer, can pinpoint the day when everything changed: March 15, 2020. And it's beat out some of the biggest names in tech along the way. It has fulfilled our need to see and be with each other, even when we can't do that in person. The Silicon Valley upstart has become synonymous with video chat over the course of the pandemic.
If there's one business that has come out ahead after a very hard year, it's Zoom. Fitness classes are among the many elements of daily life that moved to Zoom during the pandemic.
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