- Zoom CEO Eric Yuan believes that AI will help reshape the future of work
- AI assistants can help reduce workload and give people shorter work weeks
- Zoom has a new partnership with Nvidia that aims to make its AI tools faster and smarter
For many people, Zoom only became a part of everyday life during the Covid-19 lockdowns, when video conference calls replaced in-person meetings and remote work became routine.
Now Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan says we can soon look forward to having our work lives reshaped again, this time with AI tools that give us shorter weeks.
Speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Yuan said AI assistants could eventually reduce the need for five-day work schedules.
Three day work week
“Today, I have to manually focus on all these products to get the job done. Eventually, AI will help,” Yuan said.
“By doing that, we no longer have to work five days a week, right? … Five years out, three days or four days [a week]. That is a goal,” he said.
Yuan’s optimism centers on Zoom’s growing integration of artificial intelligence. The company is developing features such as “digital twins” – virtual avatars that can participate in meetings or calls on a person’s behalf.
Earlier this year, Zoom demonstrated the technology with Yuan using its own AI avatar during an investor earnings call. He said the system showed how far AI can push “the boundaries of communication.”
Yuan said Zoom spends a lot of time discussing AI strategy. When asked where he invests the most, his answer was simple: “AI, AI and AI.”
Zoom’s broader AI push also includes working with Nvidia to improve performance across its AI Companion features.
The partnership focuses on accelerating reasoning and automation tools designed to help users spend less time on repetitive tasks and more time on creative or strategic work.
According to Yuan, the potential goes far beyond virtual meetings. He described scenarios where AI companions could handle negotiations or preliminary planning between business executives, saving human participants from long calls.
He also suggested that AI could review emails, highlight urgent messages and help across other parts of Zoom’s online collaboration platform, including whiteboards and collaborative documents.
For a platform that defined remote work during the pandemic, Zoom’s next evolution looks to be less about connecting people and more about standing up for them.
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