“They wouldn’t say, ‘I’m looking for a Zoom background,’” said Chuck Roberts, the company’s owner. The presidential historian Michael Beschloss was awarded for having the 2020 “ Room of the Year,” apt recognition for a scholar who has studied what the Oval Office’s design can teach about presidential administrations. Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, was one of Room Rater’s most improved targets, pushing his score from zero to 10. The more image conscious made an effort to elevate their video backgrounds earlier in the pandemic. “I do try to give people the benefit of the doubt about what’s behind them, but there are table-stakes things that need to happen.” “I was interviewing someone for a job the other day and behind him on his counter was an open handle of vodka,” said Noah Zandan, who runs the coaching platform Quantified.
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(“His business philosophy does not include pulling off a decent zoom,” Room Rater wrote.) Managers say they have been surprised by some of the items that appear in the background of professional calls: laundry, bedsheets, takeout containers. Last week Sujay Jaswa, a former Dropbox executive, did a video shoot with the camera aimed up toward his ceiling. Plenty of people have kept working from home with a certain level of flippancy, as though any day might herald a sweeping return back to cubicles and commutes. Two years in, remote work still feels, sometimes, like an improv show. Clegg has been bemused to find that those sort of technological difficulties haven’t abated.
Clegg was in a meeting in which her boss’s video chat malfunctioned, and wouldn’t turn off the filter that made her look like a potato. “You still have people that are like, ‘Sorry I was struggling with the mute button, can you hear me now?’” said Rachele Clegg, 28, who worked for a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., throughout most of the pandemic.īack in March 2020, Ms. The technical mishaps of the pandemic’s earliest weeks keep repeating themselves, like “The Office” meets “Groundhog Day.” Many were thrust into the isolation of remote work abruptly, and they still haven’t accepted that their future work arrangements aren’t likely to look exactly like their pre-2020 ones did. “Some are keen to return to the office so they could have that separation between work and home, so they’re not the default caregiver when something goes sideways.” “People are feeling that they’re at this continuous breaking point,” said Andréa Coutu, a business consultant.
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Junior employees have wondered how to find mentors, or work friends. Extroverts have gone stir crazy in tiny apartments. Parents have split their brains between professional obligations and kids. Some workers have felt acutely the challenges of continuing to work from home.
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