Office Booth Challenger Zooming

Here's a link to a profile pic from London's Times I read over the long weekend. Of a challenger bank boss. Lauded for allowing bad credit raters to rise again, slated for charging 40pc credit card interest.

Looking past the tonal dark blue jeans-jacket combo, I note the setting.

An office booth. A small breakout spot. Spontaneous meeting space.

Somewhere every modern office boasts these days.

I hope that wall covering is not bespoke.

At least their cyan-esque corporate branding is not in view to acidify your mind.

Although that red seating is eerily reminiscent of some legacy competition. Also rampant across public libraries this past decade.

Whilst judging perspective can be tricky, it does have the feel of the tete-a-tete.

Without knowing what is behind the lens, who's to say where this feature resides.

In series along a corridor. At wall of open space such as canteen. Or even enclosed as private area.

The high-backed seat offers some sound-proofing. So perhaps more open than closed.

With no screen affixed above the table, it maybe that they're not intended to be a place from which to video.

Yet I'm willing to suspect staff could readily choose to conduct a virtual one-to-one from here.

You too may select similar for such ends.

Almost everyone would pop their laptop flat on the desk. Sit square-on to it. And natter away.

If that's your default, try mix it up a touch.

Find a box or some books for underneath your computer. And duly elevate its webcam.

Slant the angle. Depending on with which hand you write, turn the laptop. Leave spare enough desktop to make notes. Less than 30° might work. Give yourself that bit of perspective missing from the above portraiture. You can decide whether to display the welt between wall and seat. I probably would.

And don't forget in these types of settings, use headphones wherever possible.