Many home workers will have locked-down corporate laptops to work from home and won’t be able to install the app. Not only is this a terrible user interface – seemingly to drive up app downloads – it’s also unworkable in the current situation. You can see that for yourself below, where you don’t get the option to connect from your browser until after you’ve already clicked to join a meeting. We’ll show you how because Zoom goes out of its way to hide this unless the meeting host changes some default settings. You don’t need to download the app to use Zoom though, just your browser is sufficient enough to use the core functionality so you can telecommute in relative safety. The thing is, by default, Zoom tries to get you to download and install its app, which has had known security issues in the past. The new normal for office work during the coronavirus pandemic is telecommuting, powered by video conferencing tools like Zoom.
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