Across my roles in the past 10 years or more, I've probably spent more than the average amount of time in f2f meetings - and I am someone that enjoys a great f2

Across my roles in the past 10 years or more, I've probably spent more than the average amount of time in f2f meetings - and I am someone that enjoys a great f2f meeting or ideas generation/problem solving session. When we first moved to video due to covid I was exhausted every single day. I grew to hate video calls. But how much of this was my inexperience with the tech, my own lockdown tiredness and just the general funk of life at the time, I cannot say. 18 months later I LOVE video calls. I love the fact that I'm in my own comfy quite space, I love the fact that I can move from standing to sitting and back without distracting those on The calls. I love that I can turn my video and mic off and have a pace around or eat some food. It is great - and yes as you say the video helps hugely. Years ago I was working with an international team that my local team were struggling with. Each day we'd be in a phone call and I could feel the tension simmering. Then we got video going, saw we were all humans and got back in the problem, solved it and came out of the delivery good friends. I swear being able to see them and knowing they could see us changed everything about how we worked together and behaved.