You’re under lockdown when you get an invitation on WhatsApp to a business conference scheduled for 1 PM. There is no way you can travel. But you don't really need to as the venue isn’t a five-star hotel but ‘Facebook Live’, which you can access on your mobile or laptop.
Audio and videoconferences, webinars, online meetings and events have become the order of the day. Businesses are becoming increasingly reliant on platforms like Google Hangouts Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Zoho and Cisco WebEx. Even those in the public sector have taken to them. Says Rajeev Jain, group principal-infrastructure and additional