Zoom etiquette, lack of gossip among drawbacks for new hires

“It’s not exactly easy for your new boss to explain the specifics of office politics to you without putting their foot in it, ” she said, declining to be named due to company policy.(Pic shows: A woman works at a laptop computer on the floor as children have a pillow fight in a bedroom in this arranged photograph taken in Bern, Switzerland, on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. -

JOINING a new company can be tough at the best of times, with bosses to impress, skills to learn and new colleagues to befriend.

But that task becomes a whole lot harder when the “onboarding” is done during a pandemic that has forced millions to work from home, leaving new hires to judge colleagues on their taste in curtains and conduct on Zoom.