In this brave new world, our home interiors are our new avatars, and they’re more honest than most. Or it’s an inexplicably huge mansion somewhere, sprawling carpets, airy living rooms, and who even knows how or why an acquaintance has access to such a space? If you know where someone usually lives, then the sudden contrast of their background is instructive and unavoidable. Or it’s a cabin in the countryside, rented temporarily or bought previously, with a yellow-green field outside and flowers starting to bloom. Or it could be the confines of a childhood bedroom where work calls now need to be taken, if you landed (with proper precautions) at a parent’s home. The background of a chat with friends or colleagues might be a sliver of a city apartment, dark even during the middle of the day. It shows off, intentionally or not, both where we choose to be and where we are able to be during this crisis. And yet that bit of information communicates so much, particularly in our current quarantine. It’s just what the camera of our laptop or phone can capture, a fixed, mechanical view.
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Occluded by the foreground subject of our heads like a Baroque portrait painting, the Zoom background is just a glimpse into whatever space we happen to be in at the time: the corner of a room, the top of a table, a slice of view from a nearby window. As this platform becomes the new default of interaction, we also have to contend with it as a means of self-expression, which primarily occurs in the background of the window-the Zoom frame or FaceTime square.
#Ceo office background for zoom professional#
During the pandemic, communication, particularly professional communication, has turned to video chat for many of us. For early-internet forum posting it was the avatar or the signature for instant-messaging it was the evocative away message for Instagram the like-grabbing selfie and for Slack the emoji response or aggressive DM. In COVID-19 quarantine, our constant video chats come with an added, sometimes involuntary, edge of domestic voyeurism and exhibitionism.Īdvances in digital technology have a way of inducing new habits that in turn create new forms of social etiquette and signaling, because humanity can’t seem to help itself when it comes to claiming individuality.
A friend reclines in bed, talking just before going to sleep, against a backdrop of wrinkled sheets. Your parents cook dinner in your nostalgic childhood kitchen. A coworker’s houseplants look unhealthy, their room messy. Then you will look as cool as us when we chat with our friends.The owner of your company sits in a mansion during an all-office Zoom town hall. It’s easier than you think! Simply open the Zoom app, click the arrow next to the camera, and select the virtual background option. We usually give out T-shirts to the brave few willing to join us, but now you can be there in spirit with a Certified Dive Bar Friday zoom background. We had a Dive Bar Friday tradition at Foremost, where we would frequent some unique (and mostly delicious) establishments every Friday for lunch. You can even reminisce about the times you used to be able to go out to eat. Or you can hang out with our team while they wear their protective masks. Who would have ever thought you would miss meetings in actual conference rooms? Sure, you can use one of the many other Zoom backgrounds of fancy executive conference rooms. That way, you can blame it on connection issues and quickly drop out of the meeting whenever you want!
#Ceo office background for zoom full#
Full disclosure, this is someone’s home office at Foremost. Feel free to tweet us to guess who it is.Īre you not sure how a meeting will go and want a quick out? Download the same basement background with preinstalled tiling. Is your office extravagant and you are afraid your coworkers and customers will be jealous? No problem! Download this basement dungeon office, and you can guarantee that no one will be jealous. Want to look like you’re in Don Draper’s office? What marketing company wouldn't love that? Download this Mad Men style Zoom background. To help, our design team had a good time coming up with Zoom backgrounds you can download and use for free.
And while there isn't anything fun about the reason for this, it doesn’t mean we can’t have a little fun while we are all adapting to the standardization of virtual meetings.
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