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Prior to the pandemic, the majority of the world was not a “webcam‐on” culture, even for those teams which were dispersed and worked remotely. While some organizations made it mandatory for employees to use video in virtual meetings, most left it up to the individual user to decide whether to have their camera on or off. It was not uncommon for duct tape or a sticky note to be placed strategically over the lenses of the built‐in cameras on laptops. Certain laptops already came with shutters that could be slipped over their built‐in cameras for privacy purposes – one more layer of protection against appearing unexpectedly on camera. Most people never expected, nor wanted, to be on camera.

The pandemic in essence ripped off the Band‐aid (or the duct tape) of webcam usage. Once face‐to‐face interactions became off‐limits, most people begrudgingly started turning their video on during corporate meetings, if only because they were told to give it a try. Soon enough, many video conference converts (by choice or by force) started to find the value that video can bring to virtual meetings.