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Client told me my home office looked unprofessional in a Zoom call
I had a big client meeting last Tuesday and they straight up said they could hear my kids in the background and saw my messy bookshelf. I was pretty embarrassed but it made me rethink my whole setup. I moved my desk to the spare bedroom with a solid door and put up some cheap acoustic panels from Amazon for $40. Has anyone else had a client comment on your workspace and change things because of it?
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waderamirez7d agoMost Upvoted
The $40 acoustic panels move is smart, I did basically the same thing after my cat walked across my keyboard during a pricing negotiation. But here is my real question for you - did those panels actually fix the sound or did you just feel better about the setup? I ask because I put up some foam squares and my audio still picks up my neighbor mowing his lawn through the window. I wonder if paying a little more for proper soundproofing curtains or a real sound booth might be the only way to fully kill background noise for good.
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mila_murphy7d ago
Acoustic panels kill echoes, not lawnmowers.
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dianawilson7d ago
One of my long time clients once said they could hear my washing machine going in the background during a really important call. I was mortified. After that I moved my whole desk into the smallest bedroom, put up a curtain rod with a heavy blackout curtain over the door just for extra sound, and bought a used room divider on Facebook Marketplace for like $25. It changed everything for the better.
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