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Re:Stop making employees turn on webcams during meetings by _6pvr on Sunday September 26, 2021 @04:15PM (#28664249)
> We need to be able to see each other in the eye.

This isn't what happens during webcam meetings. If you're looking at the camera (to try and provide eye contact), you're not able to see anyone looking back at you.

> Managers, especially, should set the right example and turn their on cameras - and ask their team to do so too.

Definitely not, and I wouldn't work for a manager that cared if my camera was on or not.

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Re:Stop making employees turn on webcams during meetings by hammock on Sunday September 26, 2021 @04:22PM (#28664306)
>If you're looking at the camera (to try and provide eye contact), you're not able to see anyone looking back at you.

Bodelin Webcam Teleprompter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn4LUoIpf1M

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Re:Stop making employees turn on webcams during meetings by sockpuppet_12 on Monday September 27, 2021 @03:26PM (#28674962)
What a ridiculous thing that is. Thats so clunky and unappealing. Somebody should just write some software to simulate direct gaze into the camera or something more elegant than attaching a periscope to the top of your poor laptop.
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