Microsoft registers 2.7 billion meeting minutes on March 31

As the salary day progressed amid COVID-19 lockdowns, Microsoft registered a new daily record of 2.7 billion meeting minutes in a single day on March 31 — 200 per cent increase from 900 million on March 16, the company announced on Thursday.
As students and teachers turn to Teams for distance learning, there are 183,000 tenants in 175 countries using Teams for Education, said Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft 365.
“As the world works remotely, it is no surprise people are turning on video in Teams meetings two times more than before many of us began working from home full-time. We’ve also seen total video calls in Teams grow by over 1,000 percent in the month of March,” Spataro informed.
Microsoft found people in Norway and the Netherlands turn on video most, with about 60 per cent of calls including video.