What your Zoom background reveals

Working from home allows us to snoop on our colleagues’ lives outside the office like never before. Here’s what your choice of video call background reveals about you. The novelty digital background. Ah, the joker. It was fun at first, but digital backgrounds aren’t always the most professional – choose wisely. The bookshelf. Nailing the intellectual look is all in the details. Don’t go too pretentious – no one’s going to believe you’ve finished War And Peace. On the other hand, you may want to hide your copy of Fifty Shades Of Grey. Plants everywhere. You approach video conferencing like your Instagram: with careful curation. Now you just need to keep them alive for the rest of lockdown. The plain wall. You’re either very private or you’ve positioned your webcam to show the one angle that doesn’t reveal the chaos. And who can blame you? We’ve all got bigger concerns right now.