![]() ![]() The Culture Edit Our weekly culture newsletter – from books and art to pop culture and memes – sent every Friday. Green Times The New Statesman’s weekly environment email on the politics, business and culture of the climate and nature crises - in your inbox every Thursday. World Review The New Statesman’s global affairs newsletter, every Monday and Friday. The Crash A weekly newsletter helping you fit together the pieces of the global economic slowdown. ![]() Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. “I didn’t see you on Spots today, Derek.” “Sorry, gaffer. ![]() Which gives it a cool, millennial, pot plants and flat whites kind of vibe – but actually, when you think about it, also gives your employer yet another opportunity to ensure that you are at your desk, where you should be, rather than, for example, making lunch. The idea, according to the company’s chief executive, Eric Yuan, is that “you can look around, see who’s there and you can join these conversations and you don’t have to schedule meetings”. Yes: Zoom has launched a never-ending Zoom call. ![]() They include integrated email (because employees spend “almost four hours a week… flitting between apps”, a press release cheerfully pointed out), a “virtual coach” that gives salespeople “a practice environment to hone their pitch and obtain feedback”, and something called Zoom Spots, “Zoom’s new virtual co-working space – a video-enabled persistent space, integrated within the Zoom platform”. Zoom, the video platform loved and despised in equal measure by those banished from their workplaces by Covid, announced a range of new features at its already quite frightening sounding “Zoomtopia” conference this week. Felicitous news if you are one of the 11,000 people made redundant by Meta yesterday, or the 3,400 people made redundant by Twitter this week, or indeed one of the “hundreds” of people at Salesforce who are likely to lose their jobs shortly: one Silicon Valley company is actually expanding its offering. ![]()
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