download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewA Zoom recording of a council meeting in a rural region of New Zealand uploaded to YouTube nearly four years ago has racked up almost two million views, with people commenting that they play it to pretend to be busy in the office. The video, uploaded by the Waipa District Council in April 2020 during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, shows a Zoom meeting of the region's finance-and-corporate committee. One is a product-marketing meeting uploaded by the software company GitLab and another is a finance meeting uploaded by the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Being in the office can be more distracting as colleagues do things such as "desk bombing" or pulling you into spontaneous chats.

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Persons: —, Fortune, I'm, commenter, Jessica Methot Organizations: Service, YouTube, Business, Companies, Rutgers University Locations: New Zealand, Waipa, Santa Fe , New Mexico