If you’ve ever been on a conference call, you’ll appreciate the importance of the ‘mute’ button – just because you can’t see the people on the other end of the call it doesn’t mean you can’t hear them, or that they can’t hear you.<\/p>\n
And so the mute button comes in handy to mask everything from eating during a lunchtime conference call to an unavoidable coughing fit. It can also help to mask the myriad of other things you could be doing while on a conference call<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you don’t mute a conference call, people can hear exactly what type of multitasking is going on. But it can be much worse if you don’t turn the camera off while video calling – as one woman found out in the worst way possible (check the far left window).<\/p>\nWhat are you doing while on that conference call?<\/h2>\n