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It’s been another busy month at Whereby, with recent changes including an in-meeting whiteboard experience, a button that ends a call for all participants, and a new-look support center for our users. Find out more below and start exploring the features on your next video call.

Norway’s second-hand car market is thriving right now, and many consumers are using Finn.no to find their next vehicle. But with social distancing becoming a long-term prospect, travelling to view a potential car is not always viable. So we’re excited to reveal that Finn.no is now using Whereby video meetings to connect its customers with potential sellers.

We spoke to 1,500 British professionals who use our platform, to understand how both business-leaders and employees have been affected by remote working during the pandemic; as well as how they expect working practices to change once lockdown measures lift.

Our new Meetings API gives you the ability to add video meetings directly to your website or app. With minimal engineering effort required and a fast turnaround time, we like to think it’s the easiest way to embed video meetings in your product.

We love hearing from our users about the product features you want the most so let us know how we can improve the Whereby experience for you. Here are just some of the new features we launched in May.

What's acceptable attire when working from home?

What can remote managers do to create and sustain a culture from afar? Cultivating a robust company culture is synonymous with building and maintaining trust through transparency, accountability and familiarity.

Sometimes, unexpected new circumstances have a silver lining: in this case, learning how to adapt as a team and exploring new tools. Here are five tools to stay in sync, keeping teamwork and decision-making efforts on track.

In recent weeks, more and more companies have restricted their employees’ travel, or even shut down headquarters to prevent spread of the Corona virus. All of Italy has now been placed in lock down. But business doesn’t stop, so how do you ensure that the decisions that need to be made gets taken? And how do you have a good process around decision making when your team is spread across locations?

At a time of crisis, successful leaders of distributed teams know that leadership is about more than being a good manager. Read our advice on how to find opportunity in challenging circumstances and how to affect positive change as a leader.

Running meetings over video can be hard, but with some simple tricks it doesn’t have to be. Take the anxiety out of both organizing and participating in video meetings by trying some of these tips.