It’s easy to feel isolated when everyone is working from home – but you really can turn colleagues into friends. Here are some expert tips
Pamela Iyer has little idea what her director looks like. Not properly. When she started her new role as a commissioning specialist for Wokingham borough council back in July, remote working was in full swing. And the custom in her organisation is for “everyone to have their camera off” during Zoom calls, so, so far, she has only seen his photograph.
It has made her conversation a little stilted. “I can’t tell what facial expressions he is making,” she says. “I’m somebody who make jokes in the course of daily conversations. But I haven’t done that because I can’t tell how it’s going to be received – if someone is smiling or thinking, ‘God, shut up!’”
