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Eric Yuan: He's the CEO of Zoom
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Eric Yuan, the head of the video conferencing provider Zoom, knows what annoyance many office workers face in the corona pandemic: too many video conferences.
When asked whether he actually felt a certain “zoom fatigue”, Eric Yuan replied - sent from a PR point of view without mentioning the company name - that he was also familiar with this “meeting fatigue”.
Online conferences are referred to as meetings in Zoom jargon.
Yuan was asked the question at an event organized by the Wall Street Journal newspaper, at which he himself was connected via video.
Yuan told the other participants that in April 2020 - the use of Zoom was going through the roof right now - he once had 19 Zoom conferences on a single day: "I'm so sick of it!" He no longer has online meetings one after the other, said Yuan.
The head of the large US bank JPMorgan, Jamie Dimon, stressed in an interview on Tuesday that he did not consider video conferencing to be an equivalent substitute for working together.
So it is harder to develop new ideas or maintain the corporate culture.
"I'm about to cancel all of my Zoom meetings," Dimon said.
"I'm through with it."
mbö / dpa
