While video conferencing apps have certainly brought people closer together and helped mimic work environments, they lack the personal interactions that are possible in physical meetings. For example, how do you get the host’s attention when you’re talking to 50 other people?

Zoom has an interesting way of allowing users to interact with the meeting host by providing non-verbal feedback. One of these feedback options allows participants to raise their hand during a meeting, while also alerting the host. This way, you can request to speak up or share your concerns during a meeting if you’ve been muted by the host.

Currently, other than Zoom, only Microsoft Teams allows users to use the “raise hand” feature in meetings. Google is expected to roll out a Raise Hand feature for its Meet users in a future release, giving meeting participants the opportunity to speak when they raise their hand.

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