Good morning,
"I'm here live. I'm not a cat."
It was the Zoom mishap the Internet had been waiting for. A Texas lawyer, temporarily befuddled by a filter he was unable to remove, showed up on screen for his court hearing as an adorable talking kitten. And the masses, grappling with their own love-hate relationship with Zoom calls after a year of working from home, couldn't get enough of it. Even the judge on the case tweeted about it.
In the Before Times, video calls for many American workers were a novelty. A rare occurrence you might encounter if, say, cross-country teams couldn't get together for a presentation. Little thought was given to backgrounds or lighting, and certainly not whether your whole set-up might become the subject of critique online.
Nearly a year into the world's embrace of remote work--more than 40 percent of Americans are working from home--and, oh, how times have changed. Zooms are here, and they’re probably here to stay post-Covid, even if we wind up using them less frequently than we do now. So if you haven't yet made peace with the reality of video calls in your work life, it's time.
Read our story to learn the best advice we’ve collected over the past year about making Zoom calls less stressful, more effective, and--crucially--less omnipresent in remote work. |
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