I worked with some folks from one of the major management consulting firms, three or four years ago. Well into Zoom and other video conferencing being very much a thing.
They strongly favored actual call-in-with-a-phone phone conferencing. No video. Not even, necessarily, a computer at all.
Some places do video conferencing but have a culture of keeping cameras off. Usually this is driven from the top down.
... it is nice to have video for e.g. visual social cues of who might want to say something next, or whatever, but having cameras off is fine too.
However, having the camera off definitely saves a ton on fatigue by keeping you from feeling like you have to sit in one spot, in more-or-less one position, staring at either one particular screen or at your camera, to mime paying attention. Me, I like to pace and wander around the house when I'm on a call, even if I'm very interested in it. Hard to do that with video on.
They strongly favored actual call-in-with-a-phone phone conferencing. No video. Not even, necessarily, a computer at all.
Some places do video conferencing but have a culture of keeping cameras off. Usually this is driven from the top down.
... it is nice to have video for e.g. visual social cues of who might want to say something next, or whatever, but having cameras off is fine too.
However, having the camera off definitely saves a ton on fatigue by keeping you from feeling like you have to sit in one spot, in more-or-less one position, staring at either one particular screen or at your camera, to mime paying attention. Me, I like to pace and wander around the house when I'm on a call, even if I'm very interested in it. Hard to do that with video on.