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>Our company is considering making it a policy (just like "turn on your cameras").

Sounds like a horrible policy though.

Ahh, but the key problem which leads me to swear and make generalizations is this: Not everyone is an idiot; but idiots don't know they're idiots. (Also, to be clear, I don't think that people who unknowingly transmit background noise on calls are idiots. Clueless, sure. Inconsiderate, sure, if someone's pointed it out and they're still doing it.)

Forcing people to use headsets protects everyone from feedback, not from ambient noise.

Headsets with boom microphones (specifically) capture virtually no ambient noise because the gain on the microphone is extremely low (the relative volume of your voice picked up 1 inch from your mouth is much higher than that of anything else at the same location).

I can vacuum my house while on my bluetooth headset and people won't hear it on the other end.