Person on work video callWork video calls can be disastrous for effective communication, Dr Aaron Balick, a psychotherapist and director of Stillpoint Spaces, previously told HuffPost UK. “People have moved to Zoom and what they think they’re doing is moving a real-life meeting onto a Zoom meeting,” he said in 2020. But he warns “You can’t just translate one thing to the other,” adding we lose as much as 90% of social cues “we usually use” when we go screen-first.Personally, I’m still quite a big fan of the medium. But a 2024 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests more social struggles with video calls: a common faux pas may be making your coworkers dislike you, they say.Bad audio can harm your rep, experts sayThe researchers recorded high-quality au