On Monday, Zoom unveiled the brand new ‘Zoom Staff Chat’ (beforehand named Zoom Chat) with further options to accommodate the post-pandemic hybrid work setup. With the launch of the brand new Staff Chat, the corporate goals to allow smoother collaboration amongst professionals and empower groups to speak shortly and securely.
Zoom Staff Chat is anticipated to supply a robust hub with chats and channels to attach workstreams, maintain tasks on observe, and keep related with the entire group and key stakeholders. Staff Chat is anticipated to make it easy to collaborate by bringing collectively messaging, file sharing, third-party apps, video, voice, and whiteboard in a single app.
Customers can now collaborate on a whiteboard, elevate a chat to a gathering or a cellphone name, and even share a recorded video message—all inside the Zoom platform.
The Staff Chat is not going to solely be used for speaking with workers inside the organisation, however would additionally present seamless and safe communication expertise for exterior contacts, together with distributors, consultants, and shoppers.
As a part of the model enhancement, Zoom is updating its model colors, typography, and product icons—kicking off a world marketing campaign by introducing a brand new visible ingredient that represents Zoom’s new unified platform.
Zoom’s well-known brand will stay the identical, however has unveiled a visible on the centre of its marketing campaign to display itself as an area that connects all work streams. Moreover, options similar to sharing in-meeting chat to Staff Chat, responding by way of chat to an upcoming assembly, third-party integrations, and flagging a message utilizing a ‘reminder’ characteristic have additionally been launched by the platform.