Instead of defaulting to camera-off the whole time, they can turn their camera on when it's a pertinent agenda item.
It lets those who are multitasking know when something will be relevant to them. Have an agenda and share it ahead of time. Instead of issuing a hard edict, you can encourage attendees to show their faces by implementing a few strategies. But it's also nice to see people's faces sometimes, and the visual aspect of synchronous communication has obvious benefits. Yes, it's ok-and sometimes important-to keep your camera off during a video call. to get my game face on, and believe me, you don't want to see my face at that hour.Īnd there's one more big one: face-mute whenever you feel like it.
While time-shifting to accommodate time zones, I've popped into 5 a.m. If no one's going to see you anyway, feel free to give yourself a break, so you don't have to worry if people noticed the weird way you itched your ear. I don't face-mute to hide my multitasking-it's a good use of time-but if I had my video on, it'd be noticeable and distracting to others to see me doing something else. If folks are talking about something that doesn't pertain to me, I use that time for busywork, like checking Slack. When multitasking: Not all parts of all meetings I'm at are relevant to me. To avoid turning the meeting into a mukbang session, I turn off audio and video.
On days when I'm slammed with back-to-back meetings, I often eat during calls. But I want to make it clear that it's just as ok to face-mute-to turn your camera off-especially in certain situations.
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