

We also asked our team to test them out for you. These backgrounds can easily be downloaded for free and used for your next online meeting or group chat. We’ve even created a classroom background for those of you who may find yourself leading a webinar.

Whether you miss project sites with heavy equipment, your quiet office space, or sitting behind the controls of a crane - we have a Zoom background for you. We’ve created a series of 10 construction-specific virtual backgrounds for Zoom. Need a preview? Here’s what you’ll find for your new, immaculate work-from-home situation.Jobsite, project trailer or quiet office: which Zoom meeting background is right for you?Īs the construction industry embraces remote work and learns how to adapt to working from home - in make-shift desk environments surrounded by the chaos of personal life - we thought we’d offer up a little fun. If you’ve ever wanted to dial in from a Dwell house, now’s your chance- click here to download backgrounds from some of our favorite dwellings, shot by photographers Pippa Drummond and Joe Fletcher. Luckily, Zoom makes it easy to manifest the environment we want if the environment we have isn’t ideal. Perhaps your cat is licking its unmentionables, and it’s not quite the scene you want to set for your one-on-one.

Your kids’ discarded toys and jackets may be strewn on the floor, or your roommate is in the throes of an online boxing class. Raise your camera to be eye level so that folks aren’t staring directly into your nostrils.īackgrounds, however, are another matter. Face a window to get nice, even lighting. Get dressed, for one (showering is optional at this point, IMHO). As we approach the 10th week of sheltering in place, most of us have figured out how to look good-well, okay, presentable-on camera as meetings have migrated to Zoom, Google Hangouts, and the like.
