Virtual Working Spaces

Bring the fluid, serendipitous interactions of in-person work to distributed, hybrid teams

Give your teams the tools to be successful

91% of knowledge workers say team connection is important at work but
55% of knowledge workers identify it as a challenge when working remotely
Morning Consult Feb 2023

Why use Zoom Huddles?

An important part of productivity is social productivity. We’re more motivated to work when we feel engaged, trusted by our colleagues, and know where to go to solve complex problems. But how do we create a workforce that truly feels connected? Zoom Huddles provides a human-centered approach to hybrid interaction using virtual working spaces.

Build connected teams

Build connected teams

Leverage virtual working spaces for natural and genuine conversations

Win time back

Win time back

Get quick answers to questions outside of scheduled meetings

Bridge the in-office and hybrid experiences

Bridge the In-office and hybrid experiences

Create physical gathering places to give remote employees in-person visibility

Zoom Huddles use cases

  • Virtual Coworking
  • Culture Cultivation
  • Office Hours
  • Hybrid Lunchroom

Virtual Coworking

Zoom Huddles replicates the ‘working alongside’ aspect of an open office, giving you predictability on where you can find coworkers for hybrid or virtual working sessions and serendipitous run-ins.

  • Jump into a huddle to ask a coworker a question

  • Feel closer to teammates as you work throughout your day

  • Have a place to return to after scheduled meetings

Culture Cultivation

Give employees a natural place to meet and greet with coworkers by bringing in-office activities to all employees. Create huddles for:

  • Lunch & learns

  • Employee onboarding

  • Employee Resource Groups

Office Hours

Sometimes urgent questions come up outside of scheduled meetings. Remove the bottleneck of finding time for a scheduled meeting. Drop-in and get answers efficiently.

  • Connect quickly with a manager, teacher, or coworker

  • Have a huddle for new employees to get answers to questions

Hybrid Lunchroom

Reimagine your office experience with Zoom Rooms hardware to create a portal between in-office and remote employees.

  • Create huddles for lounge or lunchroom areas

  • Allow remote workers to still interact with office employees in natural settings

  • Create lasting relationships

Get to know Zoom Huddles

Zoom One

Zoom One

Enable modern collaboration with Chat & channels, Phone, Whiteboard, and Meetings in a single offering.

  • Start a phone call or video meeting from a chat message

  • Collaborate on a whiteboard from your desktop or room, and easily
    share it with others

  • See whether a colleague is available with presence status

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FAQ

Zoom Huddles are video-enabled virtual working spaces. It is designed to foster inclusive discussions, bringing the fluid interactions of in-person work to distributed, hybrid teams throughout their work day. Zoom Huddles replicates the ‘working alongside’ aspect of an open office for workers and encourages free-form video-first conversations.

A user can join a huddle and control if they’d like to have their camera or microphone on or off at any point.

Users can be a part of many huddles with the ability to move between them. It is analogous to an open office space: while an employee may have a dedicated desk, they are also free to walk around the office and mingle with other teams.

A huddle can be as small as two individuals, and as many as 1000.  The maximum number of videos shared at one time will be 49, and they will appear in a circular gallery view, different from the video tiles many users are accustomed to.

A huddle replicates an open-office environment – so yes, everyone within the huddle can hear you if you have enabled your microphone.  If you would like to have a separate conversation, you can create a subgroup, called a Conversation, within a huddle. Users in the huddle can add themselves to the Conversation.

No, recording is not supported in huddles.

Zoom Huddles is analogous to an open-office space and designed for anyone within an organization to participate. External users are not supported at this time.

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Zoom Huddles is now available in Early Access for a limited number of eligible customers. If you are interested in learning more about early access to Zoom Huddles, please fill out the this form.

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