Are you using a work Zoom account for personal use?

[cybershot]

I’m pretty pally with our zoom service owner so will ask the question tomorrow. The likelihood answer is yes. He’ll be able to see all the meetings I’ve set up and how long they went on for. That’s basic analytics that would be required to justify continuing to spend £000s on a corporate license.

Does he have the time or inclination to go through every meeting title with a fine tooth comb. I doubt it and I doubt he’d even care.

Depends how much of a goody goody the owner of the service is. It would probably make sense to not call a meeting title anything that would stick out like a sore thumb, or do loads that would be considered outside of business hours as these would easily stand out in the analytics.

 

[nosos]

I’m pretty pally with our zoom service owner so will ask the question tomorrow. The likelihood answer is yes. He’ll be able to see all the meetings I’ve set up and how long they went on for. That’s basic analytics that would be required to justify continuing to spend £000s on a corporate license.

Does he have the time or inclination to go through every meeting title with a fine tooth comb. I doubt it and I doubt he’d even care.

Depends how much of a goody goody the owner of the service is. It would probably make sense to not call a meeting title anything that would stick out like a sore thumb, or do loads that would be considered outside of business hours as these would easily stand out in the analytics.

Would love to know what he said. I'm reassured if it's all meta-data type stuff, as I rarely schedule personal meetings in advance.

 

[cybershot]

Would love to know what he said. I'm reassured if it's all meta-data type stuff, as I rarely schedule personal meetings in advance.

Sorry, only got round to asking today. Had a few tough days at work (see lonely tech thread) yeah it's what's already been said and in the video above. Our current service owner is way too busy with loads of other stuff to even bother policing it, if management ask for reports then he'll obviously produce the reports, but again, at least at our place, rather than policing, the reports would more be a case of 'are we getting value for money' and want to see that its getting used.

So my advice is, this comes down who your service owner is, if it's a goody two shoes who loves to get people into shit, don't bother. Also what your organisation is like in terms of 'this is our property, not yours.' With anything work based, if you use it for personal use without permission, be prepared to get a written warning or worse. Probably find majority won't give a shit, but there's always 'one'

Treat it the same way as would you use your work email for personal stuff.

 

[MrCurry]

Also a question of how large the organisation is. If it’s a small enterprise I would guess there’s more potential for the sysadmin to start running off reports on individual user’s meetings, but in a large multinational corp, who would have the time or interest to start snooping into how one of 40k users is making use of the service? You’d only be able to get that level of detail by running a report specific to that user ID and what reason would you have to do that?

 

[cybershot]

Also a question of how large the organisation is. If it’s a small enterprise I would guess there’s more potential for the sysadmin to start running off reports on individual user’s meetings, but in a large multinational corp, who would have the time or interest to start snooping into how one of 40k users is making use of the service? You’d only be able to get that level of detail by running a report specific to that user ID and what reason would you have to do that?

Unless you appear in the top 10 user list as shown in the video posted in the previous page, in which case if you're not expected to be there, they may click into what meetings you've been setting up!

 

[dessiato]

I’m amazed some of you have such short conversations. Before moving I’d regularly be chatting to friends, via Zoom, for up to four hours at a time. We’d have dinner together in our different homes/countries and use it to fully catch up, we’d also do online quizzes once a week. These would be, typically, 3 hours.

 

[Orang Utan]

I’m amazed some of you have such short conversations. Before moving I’d regularly be chatting to friends, via Zoom, for up to four hours at a time. We’d have dinner together in our different homes/countries and use it to fully catch up, we’d also do online quizzes once a week. These would be, typically, 3 hours.

Unbearable for the likes of me. Ten minutes and my attention wanders

 

[Elpenor]

Bar a weekly Skype with my dad I don’t use these services at all (except at work).

Maybe I’m the wrong generation for this sort of thing. Or just have no friends who want to talk to me

 

[Orang Utan]

Bar a weekly Skype with my dad I don’t use these services at all (except at work).

Maybe I’m the wrong generation for this sort of thing. Or just have no friends who want to talk to me

same. I did a couple of Zooms with friends right at the beginning of lock down but couldn’t handle it at all. All those faces gawping at you and not knowing when to talk within interrupting.

 

[Elpenor]

same. I did a couple of Zooms with friends right at the beginning of lock down but couldn’t handle it at all. All those faces gawping at you and not knowing when to talk within interrupting.

Agree never liked the group chats; mainly people loudly talking over each other. I wasn’t invested enough to raise my voice

 

[Orang Utan]

Agree never liked the group chats; mainly people loudly talking over each other. I wasn’t invested enough to raise my voice

I feel so self-conscious too!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Agree never liked the group chats; mainly people loudly talking over each other. I wasn’t invested enough to raise my voice

In group chats I tend to be the one talking over people, which is the exact opposite of what I'm like in real life.

 

[MrCurry]

I feel so self-conscious too!

I always mute my camera and mic until I have something to say. Then I can magically appear again. That’s more like a real meeting anyway - you don’t all sit there staring at each other. Only the person currently speaking needs to be onscreen.

 

[Orang Utan]

I always mute my camera and mic until I have something to say. Then I can magically appear again. That’s more like a real meeting anyway - you don’t all sit there staring at each other. Only the person currently speaking needs to be onscreen.

That’s how it looks though. A gallery of ugly mugs gawping at the scree.

 

[MrCurry]

That’s how it looks though. A gallery of ugly mugs gawping at the scree.

Yeah, that’s shit. But you can Use the camera controls to switch your camera off, or if needed a physical lens cap.

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah, that’s shit. But you can Use the camera controls to switch your camera off, or if needed a physical lens cap.

not allowed on work calls

 

[Crispy]

I run my DnD game on my work's Google Meet every week. Small business though so there's nobody officious enough to care.

 

[cybershot]

Yeah, that’s shit. But you can Use the camera controls to switch your camera off, or if needed a physical lens cap.

Pretty sure the organiser can change it so the person speaking is 'in focus' and everyone else is just a thumbnail.

 

[nosos]

Sorry, only got round to asking today. Had a few tough days at work (see lonely tech thread) yeah it's what's already been said and in the video above. Our current service owner is way too busy with loads of other stuff to even bother policing it, if management ask for reports then he'll obviously produce the reports, but again, at least at our place, rather than policing, the reports would more be a case of 'are we getting value for money' and want to see that its getting used.

So my advice is, this comes down who your service owner is, if it's a goody two shoes who loves to get people into shit, don't bother. Also what your organisation is like in terms of 'this is our property, not yours.' With anything work based, if you use it for personal use without permission, be prepared to get a written warning or worse. Probably find majority won't give a shit, but there's always 'one'

Treat it the same way as would you use your work email for personal stuff.

Thank you!!

 

[alex_]

Personal calls are automatically recorded so the admins can watch them later.

Possibly

I'd be more comfortable using an account that is totally separate from work though - better safe than sorry.

It tells you if it’s recording - red light up top left.

Work doesn’t know who else is logging in, as unauthenticated guests can login if you let them.

It also doesn’t cost them anything extra.

If you work for GCHQ, I’d advise against it - pretty much anyone else - and they won’t care, and if they do - theyll just see that you used a zoom meeting for 1000 minutes.