dunder mifflin office background for zoom

Zoom background from Studio Ghibli’s ‘My Neighbour Totoro’

Are you in the mood for the Dunder Mifflin office or the Simpsons’ living room? How about Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone dancing in a scene from La La Land? The choices are endless, although they can be rife with sub-text. You can pick a room from your favourite TV show or movie. Small wonder then that multiple players have jumped in to plug this gap and there is a vast number of backgrounds to choose from. The rather unimaginative default backgrounds that Zoom offers, include the Golden Gate bridge, blades of grass and strangely, a shot from outer space. Zoom backgrounds are the wacky office socks and ties of the 2020s Andy Budd, Founder, Clearleft A Problem of Plenty We predict that while custom Zoom backgrounds have been around for a while, they are going to be used much more, as people look for ways to not just hide that messy room, but to make a statement. Now that you see the exact same setup on every single call, it’s faded into – well – the background. The first couple of months of enforced and endless Zoom meetings were livened up by voyeuristic glimpses into your colleagues’ and clients’ homes. Your Zoom background is your new profile picture.

Dunder mifflin office background for zoom