I think this is something that would work for more junior people as well, and I'd be happy to break out / share a screen as needed.
My team and others have been having "office hours" meetings where everyone is just working, but often the cameras are off, mics are muted most of the time, and we only do it for a few hours a week.
I definitely agree that there is a lot of value in being able to jump in and ask questions in the moment. That's a big benefit of having these calls for us.
Maybe we should try having them more often. :)
Now we're all remote so we keep the same meeting open. I guess people have differing levels of comfort.
This sounds absolutely horrible.
It works well and (at least with how our team works) it's not invasive.
I would just turn both microphone and camera off; if somebody wants something they can message me, like a sane person.
And now you know how it feels to work in an open floor plan or cubicle where someone can come along and break your flow causing you to have to waste over 20 minutes getting back into it.
The key with the all day video conference is you can mute it and set your status as away when you need to do deep work. Can't do that in an office environment.
It's simply intrusive and unnecessary.
this is incredibly bad for the environment. i just hope it's at least not as bad as commuting