Is working from home in your bedroom inappropriate? I’m WFH but the only space I have to do work is from my room with my bed and room decorations (band posters, college memorabilia) in view on zoom calls. Should I try and find another space in my house or is this not a big deal?

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Use a virtual background if you’re bothered by it. Otherwise, if your work is getting done, it shouldn’t matter! Not all of us have expansive mahogany offices like the partners do.

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Paint an old flattened amazon box and use it as a backdrop lol

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Someone on my team regularly takes their video calls from bed lol

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This is incredible. Kudos to them

FYI, similar to zoom, WebEx now has a virtual background as well. I use the blur one

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No

Why would that be inappropriate? I’d rather that than a robot that sits in front of blank walls

If you use Zoom, virtual backgrounds are your best friend. There are lots of options out there to use too.

I take zoom calls from my bed... no complaints so far.

Use a virtual background

I usually just blur my background. Works perfectly fine.

Yes. Just block it with a green screen from bhphoto fine.

Or Dont use video

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