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ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK: The office (and Office) gets a Zoom and Zoho makeover
You may not have heard of Zoho, but then you likely hadn’t heard of Zoom before you were sent home to work
16 August 2020 - 05:04
UPDATED 17 August 2020 - 12:40
It goes without saying that the office has been re-invented as remote working becomes a standard rather than a begrudged exception. The ramifications are vast, from a commercial property sector that is experiencing downsizing on a global scale to booming sales of home office equipment.
When the move began in earnest in March 2020, with the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we saw a fascinating trend: searches on Google revealed a simultaneous and almost equal spike in searches for Netflix and Zoom. In SA, interest in both peaked in the first days of lockdown, from March 27. ..
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