Tens of thousands of people likely got a break from their afternoon meetings on Wednesday when Zoom outages prevented users from joining meetings and accessing the website. Disruptions peaked shortly after 3 p.

According to the website Downdetector, a website and app that monitors the status of various online services and helps users identify and report outages, there were over 60,000 Zoom outages. Zoom became an integral part of companies and the workplace during the 2020 pandemic when offices closed and people needed to be able to work remotely.