We have the same thing where the norm had been cameras off. But we’re not the main office. The main office is into cameras and we’re increasingly needing to interact with them/being taken over by them.
This is always a handy excuse. “You’re breaking up. I’m turning off my camera.” And once you’ve set the pattern, you no longer even need to bring up the reason.
That works better. Yes, even if you’re at home.
Working remotely doesn’t mean you have to work from home all the time.
I belong to a volunteer org full of boomer men that has a zoom meeting quarterly. They request cameras on to be sociable but half the time one or two of them are eating like pigs at a trough through the whole meeting.
i suspect the only way we formalize the actual shift to true flex time is when the office real estate is all reduced to the open office/hoteling and companies can reduce their footprint and furniture purchase.
I totally don’t understand the aversion to eating on zoom. People eat on front of each other IRL all the time. At the depth of the pandemic, i even arranged zoom lunches with with with friends, where the whole point was that we spent our lunch break catching up. And yes, we both ate on camera and commented on each other’s food, just like IRL.
My employer started that before the pandemic. The idea was not that everyone would wfh, but that they wouldn’t have to pay for space for people on PTO or for unfilled positions. But they quickly realized that people hated hoteling, and were territorial about others using their space even when they were out. A lot of departments started encouraging employees to wfh twice a week to normalize space-sharing and to reduce the space they needed to rent.
So i guess it’s not surprising that we had an easy transition to most employees mostly working from home.
Ive done meals on zoom before, we did it with the neighbours during the pandemic. I’d make a meal, distribute to everyone, then we’d jump on zoom and yak.
But in a meeting, I dunno. Plus maybe it’s that these folks seem to be using a shovel to eat. it’s distracting and seems rude to me.
I’ve smoked pot on zoom before
The close proximity of the camera to the face, not to mention the mics enhancing the sound of the chewing, is probably what people least enjoy about watching others eat on zoom. I don’t have any strong feelings one way or another about other people eating, but I prefer to have my camera off when I’m eating.
Im assuming people keep their mikes off while chewing for that not to be an issue.
There is a setting on Zoom where you can hide your square from your view but still leave the camera on. The downside is that if a zombie comes up from behind to eat your brains then you will not notice it until it’s too late.
Do you WANT to know that’s coming?
If I know that it’s coming then at least I’ll have time to pull out my Elven sword or eternal flamethrower
My work meetings are all in teams.
Glad our office decided not to go with teams, due to data security concerns. With zoom I can use a background so that people don’t have to look at my room - don’t believe there is such a feature in teams
I think there’s a difference between a planned lunch vs just randomly eating.
In the before times it was normal to eat with my co-workers in the cafeteria or at a lunch meeting where the department was buying lunch. It was normal to bring a lunch to a “brown bag” session (usually a CE webinar). It was not normal to pig out during a random meeting though.
I’m not sure how that translates to social gatherings though as those are more likely to include food in the first place. It still strikes me as odd if it wasn’t part of the invitation.
I hate teams with a passion. everything lags in there.
I prefer Webex.
Yes. Through Citrix
Im confused. If youre using citrix, you can do that through a laptop rather than a desktop, so why do you have a company desktop at home just to connect via citrix? Use a personal laptop