Why has this become a norm? It looks bad and distracting and sometime affects objects other than the background. A natural background is much more pleasant IMO (unless you have a massive dildo or poster of naked women in the background IDK what the issue is) Deep down I think this is just a way to avoid class friction / alienation (someone having a nice office or house back-drop vs someone living in a shit-hole) ...
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I work in IB and in the office, so the blurring is really an MNPI issue. Unless you have an office, one can see the screens of colleagues (I mean, you have to skwint a bit but in theory) and if they're working on a P2P or something else highly sensitive, as a bank we could get into serious trouble
Fair enough in this case. Just seems it's the new norm in every scenario and people even advise it for all types of interviews etc.
I agree with the Count. People honestly should have been blurring their screens before and yet were not. People are much too cavalier about the things they share. You would also be amazed at the things I have learned because people have bad headsets which allow in the ambient audio around the speaker.
If you're at home and have an inoffensive background (as you should), then go for the unblurred. But if it's a wall-to-wall bullpen and the view is going back onto someone else's screen, then you never know when someone would be able to Snipping Tool and Magnify their way into information that they shouldn't have. AI technology is only going to get better at stringing together disparate pieces of video information to create an unblurred video anyway.
Sometimes I'll blur in the office. At home? Those ETF Launch certs and all the letters I have don't speak on their own.
I recently switched to using blurred 100% of the time for two reasons.
1 should be focusing on my head as speaker not what's behind me
2 you can see colleagues screens behind me
It’s not worth changing it for when I’m in the office vs at home and it should always be blurred in the office.
I can’t imagine giving a shit about this one way or another
Why are you so interested in what's in the background ya weirdo? Tryna scope out my hood? Maybe I didn't feel like putting away my 1/4-to-scale dildo-hucking trebuchet - but why is that any of your concern?
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I'm sorry are dong trebuchets an inflammatory call to violence that create hostility now? Monkey_chunky I'm sowwy if I made anyone feel unsafe 🙄
Trebuchets are the pinnacle of medieval siege warfare. Tracy Alloway at Bloomberg got reamed out for not knowing her medieval siege warfare weapons. Is everybody in AM product an autistic savant? probably.
Trebuchets are peak medieval warfare engineering. Agreed on all accounts!
Like trebuchets are just cool. Top gear threw a crappy compact car out of one 15 years ago, but I'm not aware of any other uses for them in violence over the past 200 years.
I personally can't stand when someone's background is blurred (it's probably my bad eyesight so it's making it worse), but honestly when you put it that way (colleague's screens and all) I get it. I still don't prefer it, but I get it. I would just use a camera angle that's hiding all the mess (no screens behind me, fortunately).
Always blurred (or solid firm background) so no one knows where I am taking a call from.
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