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I think this is more geared towards orgs that are not really remote. They're just replicating the office environment online.

In order for this to work I'd have to work all day with a camera on my face, if I understood this correctly. This sounds awful to me.

I do think this would be really cool/fun for events, but for day-to-day work, I'd absolutely hate it.

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> In order for this to work I'd have to work all day with a camera on my face, if I understood this correctly. This sounds awful to me.

Yeah I wasn't sure, is that what they're suggesting as the use-case? Always-on video and mic sounds awful, even if most of the time no one sees it. My home is not my office, my "home office" is just a desk in my living room and I share this space. So opening a window to my home is, frankly, unwelcome.

One of the most important features here for work is actually explicitly not doing always-on camera/mic. We have a setting that makes it so that when you're not looking at the tab, no one can see/hear you, but other people can come up to you and "tap on your shoulder". If you do decide to engage with them, it's super frictionless.

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