On a Treadmill Desk while on Zoom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Incredibly inappropriate especially for client facing calls.

+1. If any of my employees did this while client facing, I'd fire them immediately. No freaking way I'm losing business because someone has difficulty scheduling exercise at appropriate times (anytime other than zoom)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The question is: would this be appropriate during an in-person meeting? The answer is no.

Incredibly distracting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Working out while on a business video call? People are so stupid. What’s next? Stretching in your leotard?

Slippery slope fallacy, try again.

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I have a client who does this or is walking outside with the wind wooshing and the call breaking up. It's annoying and inefficient enough that I raised my rates to work with them.

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all really be stressed out & bothered about everything. If her work product is fine, let this woman work out. I have horrible adhd and I pace my entire house on calls. Is that also unprofessional?

Walking on calls is not inappropriate. Walking on a zoom meeting is distracting, so it's inappropriate.

Oh my god shut up. Stop nagging

Pp isn’t nagging, they’re answering the question that was asked.

[Anonymous]

I expect people to be paying attention and taking notes in meetings. How is someone on a treadmill able to take notes?

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Anonymous wrote:Y’all really be stressed out & bothered about everything. If her work product is fine, let this woman work out. I have horrible adhd and I pace my entire house on calls. Is that also unprofessional?

Walking on calls is not inappropriate. Walking on a zoom meeting is distracting, so it's inappropriate.

Oh my god shut up. Stop nagging

Pp isn’t nagging, they’re answering the question that was asked.

Don’t waste your time responding to the troll.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not appropriate even for internal meetings unless it is occasional and with someone you know well. Otherwise it sends a message of “You are not important enough for me to dedicate this time to you. This is only worth my time if I can multi-task too.”

Someone did this (went off-camera so they could take a walk) during our initial intro/get to know you one-on-one meeting when they moved from another part of the org to a team adjacent to mine. I would ordinarily have gone out of my way to be helpful, share knowledge, connect them to others. After they did that I got a bad taste in my mouth and didn’t put in extra effort beyond answering the questions they asked.

I only do this in meetings where I am listening but not participating and most importantly, not expected to regularly participate. If I am asked a question then I respond and my treadmill is turned off. When not speaking, 99.9% of the time, I am only walking 2mph so there is no heavy breathing it is just finding a way to get in movement.
The person taking notes who doesn't mute themselves and you can constantly hear typing or their cat meowing is making more noise.

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Anonymous wrote:The question is: would this be appropriate during an in-person meeting? The answer is no.

Bingo. If someone were to start walking in circles around the room during an in person meeting that wouldn’t fly.

False equivalence fallacy. Try again.

How so?

It’s distracting and goes against expectations for a work meeting. How is the person really engaged and able to participate in a work meeting while they are exercising?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s unprofessional. On her own time? Fine. But to be visibly working out on meetings is very attention-seeking and distracting. Tell her to cut it out.

Agree with your on the second, but we don't know what her intentions are.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it really loud?

She's constantly taking water swigs and towel wiping her brow. So... not very professional

She's towel wiping her brow....from walking? I walk on my treadmill for an hour a day and I don't sweat.

Must be nice.

No. It’s normal

Yeah sure because you are going sooooo slow

[Anonymous]

And if she gets injured in threadmill during zoom you got a workers comp claim

[Anonymous]

Odd behavior. If she were in-person during a meeting, would she get up and march in place? No. So she shouldn’t be doing that during an online meeting.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it really loud?

She's constantly taking water swigs and towel wiping her brow. So... not very professional

She's towel wiping her brow....from walking? I walk on my treadmill for an hour a day and I don't sweat.

Then it really of any benefit?

[Anonymous]

That's too far why hasn't her boss said anything?