Re:Ask HN: Have you experienced “hiring fraud?”
by BeetleB on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:28PM
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> Have things changed that much?
Funny question, as it should be asked the other way round. People have been having remote audio only meetings for quite long - videoconferencing was very costly until recently.
In my company, it's a rare exception that people turn the camera on during meetings. When COVID hit and everyone switched to remote, I can't think of a single person in any of the meetings I've attended (including 1:1) who wanted the camera on - with the exception of introductions when people were new to the team.
It's not at all surprising as prior to COVID we had meetings with people located in other offices all the time (as well as some remote workers) - it was almost always audio only.
The only exception is one on one work meetings, like pairing, where both of you are going to be looking at code or something and the video serves no purpose.