14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft Teams is one of the services whose adoption skyrocketed lately, and Microsoft too admitted that it was all because of the changing trend that encouraged companies and employees to switch to a hybrid work model.
In other words, the global health issue has forced companies to allow more employees to work remotely, and software like Microsoft Teams was the most convenient way to let them remain productive even from the safety of their own homes.
So the adoption of Microsoft Teams improved throughout 2020, with Microsoft revealing last fall that the service reached 115 million daily active users.
New record
And now the company has provided new data, explaining that the Teams userbase continued to grow, with over 145 million people using it on a daily basis.
“Teams now has over 145 million daily active users, almost double the number a year ago. In markets where employees have returned to the workplace, including Australia, China, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan, we have seen usage continue to grow. And the number of organizations with more than 1,000 users integrating their third-party and LOB apps with Teams has increased nearly 3X year over year,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in an earnings call with analysts.
“Teams is extending beyond communications, creating an entirely new category of modern collaborative applications, as organizations use Power Platform to build custom apps, bots, and workflows within Teams. American Airlines, for example, highlighted in their earnings call the cost savings it’s driving by using a Power App within Teams to help its frontline workers manage critical gate operations.”
On a related front, the growing number of users is also causing some challenges for Microsoft to keep the service up and running. Earlier this week, Teams went down for users across the world, making it impossible to connect to the service for several hours.