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As Covid-19 forces millions of us to work from home, which are the best tools for the job?
It’s worth reading Slack founder and CEO ’s on Twitter about the changes his life and his company have been subjected to , as half the world has been locked down by the coronavirus pandemic, with a record number of people using the app to work from home. The company’s shares have risen 15% in the wake of the comments.
Slack is not alone: similar tools, such as Microsoft Teams, . At one point, the increase in users .
But is . The company — founded in 2011 by after leaving his job as VP of Engineering at , a subsidiary of Cisco, and which in with a valuation of $16 billion —, and says it wants to be much and instead take center stage in areas ranging from collaborative work to online teaching.
While some criticize — the host of a meeting can activate an tool to check on participants — or its , the application continues to break popularity records: the lockdown is…
