They’re inexpensive and portable and they’re becoming a staple of the modern workplace. If you’re going to use this feature, get a green screen. Without a green screen, the outline of your head starts to blend into your background, and it looks weird. But when you choose any of these backgrounds and you don't have a green screen, you’re sending a different message, and it’s not one that will build your brand in a positive light. Making the circuit board your background might let people know you’re a techie, or selecting a background that’s an art gallery communicates your passion for creativity. When you choose a virtual background from the list of options in Zoom or Microsoft Teams or Google Meet, you’re saying something about your brand. You can’t build your brand if you’re invisible. When you’re writing that email to a client while pretending to be present in the Zoom meeting, you come off as disinterested, distracted and impolite. After all, the presenter can see you (if you’re thinking, “Not if I have my camera off,” see the next item on this list). When you’re in a video teleconference, though, multitasking almost seems tolerated or even expected as a sign of efficiency. And let’s face it, it’s really easy for people in the meeting to see what you’re doing. As Jackie Weaver rightly said at one point: “It’s nothing if not lively in Handforth.When you’re in a physical meeting room, you’re less likely to multitask out of respect for the presenter. None of it really made sense, but we loved it all the same. It was a whirlwind of misunderstood standing orders, gazumped chairmen, Britney Spears references, and Aled’s iPad. Last month, an online meeting between members of the parish council in Handforth, a small Cheshire town, descended into total, electrifying chaos. Let’s get the most obvious one out the way early doors, and revisit the infamous tale of Jackie Weaver - a woman who, despite claims to the contrary, did actually seem to have a fair bit of authority.
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