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Re:The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings by piva00 on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:04AM (#28985146)
As if no one does the same on in-person meetings. Bringing their computers to the meeting, leaving them open and replying messages here and there.

If they believe that it's on their side, so the reason to keep my camera on is to "show" that I've been paying attention? I work with a bunch of people who leave their camera on and are completely inattentive for parts of meetings, doing something else while looking at the computer. How is that different?

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Re:The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings by matsemann on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:58AM (#28985433)
> How is that different?

It's not, no one has said it is. Being inattentive is bad no matter how it's done.

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Re:The fatiguing effects of camera use in virtual meetings by piva00 on Monday October 25, 2021 @09:29AM (#28987540)
Exactly, so it's not a remote, camera on-off issue, it's an attention issue that happens on any meeting. Stating that having the camera on helps with it is a non-argument to having a camera on, hence my point.
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