Amid the surge of AI in the workplace, Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom, has presented a bold and enticing vision: with the help of AI assistants, humans may be able to bid farewell to the traditional five-day workweek within five years, moving toward a new normal of working three to four days per week.

At the recent TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference, Yuan elaborated on how Zoom is deeply integrating AI into its product ecosystem and painted a future office scene driven by "digital avatars." He revealed that he personally used an AI-generated "digital twin" to speak on his behalf during the company's recent earnings call, not only verifying the reliability of the technology but also demonstrating how AI can "break through the boundaries of communication."

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Yuan emphasized that Zoom's current strategic focus is almost entirely on AI. "What am I investing in? AI, AI, and more AI," he said. He mentioned that the company's executive team holds several hours of special meetings every week to discuss how to integrate AI capabilities into video conferencing, online whiteboards, collaborative documents, and other products. In the future, AI assistants will not only attend meetings on your behalf, record key points, but also automatically sort email priorities, identify urgent messages, and even collaborate with others' AI agents to complete contract negotiations when you are absent.

"Imagine two executives finalizing a deal," Yuan said as an example. "They don't need to spend hours talking online; instead, their digital avatars can exchange opinions and draft proposals first, and humans just need to make decisions at key points." This model of "AI first, human oversight" will significantly reduce repetitive communication and inefficient meetings.

That's why Yuan is confident that AI is not replacing humans, but freeing up human time. "Today, I have to manually operate all tools to get my work done; in the future, AI will handle most of the tasks for me," he predicted. As AI takes over heavy tasks such as information filtering, content generation, and process coordination, employees will be liberated from "routine busyness" and truly focus on creation and strategic thinking — which is the technological foundation for reducing working hours.

"In five years, working three to four days a week should be our goal," Yuan said. His words are not only a declaration of Zoom's product roadmap, but also a statement on the ethics of future work: the ultimate value of technology is not to make people busier, but to give them more freedom.