It doesn't need to be every meeting every day (and that's not even getting into how productivity sapped by meetings affects emotional grounding - most people need a lot fewer of them than they're actually having).
I posit that the added stress of (especially unnecessarily) strained bandwidth - for necessary work, or keeping kids' cabin fever at bay - is far harder on that emotional state than a stuttery, pixelated view of your coworkers solves... Especially when you throw a micromanager, freaking out about not being about to physically count heads and look over shoulders, into the mix.
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We're a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers.
It's important to see faces to remember that people are actually people with feelings, and so on.
You can have a coffee meeting, or something, for that, but it's an important thing to keep people grounded emotionally.
It doesn't need to be every meeting every day (and that's not even getting into how productivity sapped by meetings affects emotional grounding - most people need a lot fewer of them than they're actually having).
I posit that the added stress of (especially unnecessarily) strained bandwidth - for necessary work, or keeping kids' cabin fever at bay - is far harder on that emotional state than a stuttery, pixelated view of your coworkers solves... Especially when you throw a micromanager, freaking out about not being about to physically count heads and look over shoulders, into the mix.