You might soon have to pay to use Google Meet

Since the start of the pandemic, most professions have made the switch to working remotely, raising demand for video conferencing platforms and meeting spaces.

Offices were quick to adopt to myriad platforms - Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams - all of which had their own advantages and pricing plans.

Google had initially announced - in April - that they would be capping free meetings to an hour, they then decided that the cap would only be enforced in August, since there were massive numbers using the platform already.

On top of the meeting time limit, Google is also restricting other features - 250 participants, live-streams of up to 100,000 people and the ability to save recordings to Google Drive - to their paid version

Post September 30, all these features, including unlimited Google Meet usage will be only possible with GSuite, which costs $25 a month, per user.