Tom Taulli – With the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies have been scrambling to adopt remote working technologies. The biggest beneficiaries of this, of course, are the developers of web conferencing systems.  During the first quarter, Zoom’s daily user base skyrocketed from ten million to 200 million.

“We are in the midst of a massive shift in how we work that happened almost overnight, and we’re never going back in many ways,” said Craig Malloy, who is the CEO of Lifesize. 

Let’s face it, with sudden investments in new technologies, why will companies abandon them when the virus runs its course? It does seem far-fetched.  In other words, companies will likely be less focused on business travel and there will continue to be more employees who will have remote working arrangements.

Such changes will certainly have wide-ranging impacts on other tech sectors. Just look at RPA (Robotic Process Automation). The technology allows for fairly easy automation of repetitive and tedious processes. Read On: