- Zoom CEO Eric Yuan believes AI will help reshape the future of work
- AI assistants could help reduce workload and shorten work weeks
- Zoom has a new partnership with Nvidia that aims to make its AI tools faster and smarter
For many people, Zoom became an integral part of daily life during the Covid-19 lockdowns, when video conference calls replaced in-person meetings and remote working became routine.
Now, Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan says we can soon expect to see our work lives reshaped yet again, this time thanks to AI tools allowing us to make weeks shorter.
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 do my job. Eventually, AI will help me,” Yuan said.
“By doing this, we no longer need to work five days a week, right?… In five years, three days or four days [a week]. It’s a goal,” he said.
Yuan’s optimism focuses on Zoom’s growing integration of AI. The company is developing features such as “digital twins” – virtual avatars that can attend meetings or calls on a person’s behalf.
Earlier this year, Zoom demonstrated the technology with Yuan using his own AI avatar during an investor earnings call. He said the system showed how far AI could push “the boundaries of communication”.
Yuan said Zoom spends a lot of time discussing AI strategy. When asked where he was investing most heavily, his answer was simple: “AI, AI and AI.”
Zoom’s broader AI push also includes a collaboration with Nvidia to improve the performance of 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.
The potential, according to Yuan, goes far beyond virtual meetings. He described scenarios in which AI companions could handle negotiations or preliminary planning between business leaders, saving human participants from lengthy calls.
He also suggested that AI could review emails, highlight urgent messages and help in other parts of Zoom’s online collaboration platform, including whiteboards and collaborative documents.
For a platform that has defined remote work during the pandemic, Zoom’s next evolution seems less about connecting people and more about replacing them.
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