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I started turning my camera on for every single work meeting
Honestly, my company went fully remote in 2020 and for the first couple years I kept my camera off 90% of the time. I figured it didn't matter as long as I got my work done. Then, about six months ago, I decided to try an experiment and turn my camera on for every single internal call, even the quick 15-minute check-ins. Ngl, I expected it to be draining and maybe a little pointless. The weird thing is, the opposite happened. People started remembering my name more in cross-department projects, my manager mentioned my 'increased presence' in my last review, and I got pulled into a couple of cool initiatives I'm sure I would have been overlooked for before. It felt like I went from being a name on a Slack list to an actual person on the team. I'm not saying you need to do it, but has anyone else noticed a real difference in how they're perceived at work just from being more visible on video?
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henry_martin377mo ago
Did you ever have that moment where you realized your camera-off profile pic was just you squinting at the sun from 2017? That was me. I finally turned mine on and my boss was like "oh, you have a beard now." I guess I'd been a chinless ghost for three years. It's wild how much just showing your face changes things, even if you're just sitting there nodding with bedhead.
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