I can't speak to other fields that require more extrinsic motivation, but as an engineering manager, cameras are pointless for teams. It's yet another one of th

I can't speak to other fields that require more extrinsic motivation, but as an engineering manager, cameras are pointless for teams. It's yet another one of those performative things like making your employees show up by 8am. It's a loose correlator to performance at best. What does matter are non-transactional relationships among teams. That's what remote work has really made harder. Cameras don't make relationships more or less transactional. What makes relationships less transactional is an hour of team building. Play a few rounds of Among Us on company time...whatever the team feels like it can come together around that isn't work, which is what water cooler breaks amounted to, anyway. Regardless, if employees don't feel comfortable being seen by the team, that's a sign of deeper team problems. Simply making them turn the camera on won't fix it.