Having trouble getting your point across in lively video meetings? and reveal their hot hacks for getting your voice heard

despite recent calls from ministers for office workers to get back to their citycentre desks, working from home full time isn’t going to stop as quickly as it began.

But while some thrive in the hubbub of the office, others work better in the silence of their living room. However, working from home makes it a lot harder for introverts to get their voices heard. Interacting with colleagues or pitching ideas can be tricky for those who feel reluctant to butt in during video calls. So, as part of our event series Grazia Onboard, in conjunction with UBS bank, we enlisted two WFH aficionados – journalist and author Yomi Adegoke and author, comedian and podcaster Viv Groskop – to teach us everything, from how to interrupt professionally to the best way to network virtually.

Vidula Vinayagamoorthy (our UBS host and co-chair of the bank’s gender-equality network All Bar None) highlights how important this topic has become: ‘Making sure everyone gets the most from this new way of working and that all voices are heard is critical.’

Here are Yomi and Viv’s top tips on how to become extroverted introverts in our brave new digital world...