As the United States braces for the coronavirus epidemic, businesses looking to protect the health of their employees are taking steps to support staff working from home & leading to a surge in demand for video conferencing technology and other collaboration tools.The stock prices of Slack and video-conferencing software Zoom have risen in the past month, even as the overall stock market saw serious declines last week.
Zoom has also gained a number of new users amid the outbreak, according to CNBC, with company officials saying they&ve seen more active users in the first two months of 2020 than in all of last year.