It seems everyone is doing Zoom social hours now. As the Covid-19 lockdowns began, Zoom socializing was a lot of fun for me. Now, two months into it, I’m hearing that people are Zoomed out. After spending all day in work-related video meetings, no one wants to do another video call, even if it’s just for fun. Part of the problem is that we started out thinking we could do a Zoom social call the same way we would meet in a restaurant for happy hour. But there’s a critical difference between an in-person social gathering and a video gathering; you can’t have verbal side conversations on video. Once two or more people begin to have side conversations, the audio is hijacked for the entire group and no one can hear either the side conversation nor the main conversation. The trick is to think of your Zoom happy hour the…
