Why or why not?<p>For my current job, the answer is 'nah'. I think the reason is: because we are technologically incapable of doing it, even if we wanted to do it.<p>(Don't shoot the messenger.)<p>We do audio/screenshare-only meetings -- i.e. we do not use Zoom or other software to put our faces/bodies/apts/houses/dogs/children/significant-others/furniture/books/social-class/personal-lives on camera.<p>I have decided I really like this, and this is the best way to work remotely.<p>Sometimes we do audio-only meetings without the screensharing, and vice-versa.<p>There now seems to be some counter-momentum to the Zoom/video-is-better (because non-verbal communication is everything*) narrative, but I'm curious if my company is unique in this no-Zoom regard.<p>I don't have a "Zoom Shirt".<p>I consider the ability to work without video on me to be a major plus of my current work situation. I would even like to search for a new job with this as one of my primary criteria -- pretty close to a prerequisite.
We have moved to Zoom for our team meetings but as a company we use goto meeting. My team used Slack for our standup but we were having a bunch of issues and a teammate has a paid Zoom account and was pushing for that. We are happy about Zoom compared to Slack for video calls. We are a normally distributed team so the video chat is an important aspect for us.
We prefer Google Meet because we already pay for it and multiple people can screen share at the same time. Really great for dev collab / standup.<p>Zoom seems to have security risk, so we've started asking vendors to use our links instead of their Zoom links. A little harder with clients...