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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My team of 8 is fully remote so when we meet, it's on Teams unless we're together in-person for an occasional onsite or retreat. I'm judicious about scheduling team calls - they're biweekly with pre-planned agendas, usually for no more than 45 minutes at a time, so not a heavy lift in my opinion. I'm in my 50s and spent much of my career before 2020 working in person/ in an office. I'm supportive of and like the flexibility afforded by a fully remote workplace, but I feel like it's much more difficult to connect with my employees and build culture in a virtual environment. When I first started at this company a year ago, everyone was on camera for meetings within my team. Now, I find that increasingly most of them stay off camera unless it's a one-on-one. I'm thinking of requiring my staff to be on camera for all meetings within our team. I don't mind if people are dressed casually or have their hair in a ponytail and no make-up. These aren't client-facing calls. Maybe it's my age, but I feel like it's the only way I can know whether people are engaged - seeing facial expressions helps me gauge their response to things and frankly it's also about respecting the person/people speaking. No one likes to talk to a screen of boxes with names in them. I realize the world got by on audio conf calls for a long time, but now we have the option to see each other...so why not do so?

Does your company or department require employees to be on camera for calls? How would you respond/react to this request? I was talking to a peer who leads another team and she attributed this concern to my generation (X) and my response to the evolution of the workplace. Basically she said it was an old fashioned notion, and the young people will hate it. What do you think?   [/quote]

Why do you want to see people's face? I will be nervous when I am on camera. I am ok to talk face to face in person.[/quote]

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