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In my experience, meetings definitely feel more productive when at least the key participants have cameras on. So I would not advocate for a "camera off" cultur
by raz32dust 5y ago
In my experience, meetings definitely feel more productive when at least the key participants have cameras on. So I would not advocate for a "camera off" culture. Instead, something that helps me and might help others - When I am not speaking, I keep my camera on, but I don't keep the camera view myself - i.e, I don't watch myself or others. Instead, I switch to the content being shared/presented, if any. This helps me a lot, as I think a lot of the anxiety comes from having to watch myself, which is always uncomfortable and not something that we are used to.
Secondly, I think virtual meetings are fatiguing also because of the constant staring at the screen. In in-person meetings, you spend a lot of time not looking at a screen, whereas you are constantly staring at a screen in a virtual meeting. Something that helps me is to take some of the meetings like 1:1s while walking with only audio.
- makeitdouble 5y agoSomething that is throwing me off in these discussions is how do you deal with documents ? You do have written support to guide the meeting, right ? Won’t you all be looking at that document, eventually taking notes, and not looking at the speaker ? Even when some people turn the camera on, I can’t imagine anyone in the meeting seeing more than their small tile in the corner while the main doc is front and center covering 90% of the window.
- Buttons840 5y ago> meetings definitely feel more productive when at least the key participants have cameras on. I agree with the corollary at least. If someone hasn't spoken for the last 5 minutes, they are not a key participant and can turn off their camera. The optimal middle path is probably that people sometimes have their cameras on, and sometimes don't. This option seems to get the least amount of consideration.