Zoom updates to support hybrid working models, office re-entry

The video-conferencing platform allows ‘Zoom Rooms for Touch’ users to send a whiteboard to Zoom chat or email, and also control a shared desktop of another user from their touch-based device to streamline content sharing.

Control a shared desktop from Zoom Rooms for Touch. | Picture by special arrangement.

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Zoom has updated some of its sharing, device management, and utility features to support hybrid workforces and help organisations re-enter office.

The video-conferencing platform allows ‘Zoom Rooms for Touch’ users to send a whiteboard to Zoom chat or email, and also control a shared desktop of another user from their touch-based device to streamline content sharing. Also, ‘Zoom Rooms for Touch’ devices have been redesigned to feature new in-meeting toolbar and controls for easier meeting experience.

Zoom's new security features to manage unruly meeting participants

Employees plugging in from home, like their colleagues in office, can share content in 'Gallery View' on Zoom-compatible device at home. Now, users can also join and host OnZoom scheduled sessions using Zoom from Home devices.

Information technology (IT) teams in office can now manage work-from-home devices with additional controls to grant or limit sign-in access to users on self-managed Zoom for Home devices. Besides, to improve meeting environment security on Zoom Rooms appliances and Zoom for Home devices, admins can insist users to set up a screen PIN to lock their devices.

The video-conferencing platform also brings support for real-time transcriptions, as well as receiving and displaying meeting reactions on Zoom Rooms appliances, in addition to Mac and Windows devices.

Further, Zoom Rooms kiosk mode with a virtual receptionist is now generally available, the company noted in a blog post.