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How to be a superstar on Zoom

Screen presence is now a feature of the modern office

The pandemic embedded video into the workplace. Workers who had never previously been on camera suddenly spent every hour of the day getting used to the sight of themselves and their colleagues on screen. Executives realised that they could send video messages to their workforces rather than having to convene town halls.

This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “How to thrive in the video age”

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