Agree completely. Non-verbal cues are helpful in person, but they just don't translate over webcam meetings very well at all. Instead you have a bunch of heads

Agree completely. Non-verbal cues are helpful in person, but they just don't translate over webcam meetings very well at all. Instead you have a bunch of heads trying to look attentive staring off into weird directions. At one point my company asked us all to turn off video for a bit to save bandwidth while they were doing upgrades. None of the teams I'm working with turned cameras back on after the upgrades were done. Turned out that this whole time everyone was doing it because they felt like everyone else expected it of them, but on one actually wanted it.