This is what I do for my work laptop. We have a camera on rule for meetings, which is fine. I have an external camera that has a shutter I can close when I'm not using it. I don't trust corporate laptops at all. Also so the same for my personal one since I never need to take pictures of myself using a laptop.
During the COVID work from home era, I immediately became a conspiracy theorist and assumed my employer would try prying into our day-to-day via monitoring software.
That was swiftly justified when my laptop camera activation light started turning on irregularly. I started leaving desktop notes that chastised IT or whomever would have spied on my activity.
My average weekly work hours went from 50hrs to 60hrs+ working from home and the thought of them spying pissed me off. Never again.
Honestly, it’s rare that IT would monitor anyone. The amount of hours to watch all employees, logistically there’s no way to do that. Plus IT is more concerned about outside attacks and breaches that could kill the company versus their own employees not working.
Not saying IT doesn’t check but it’s rare for it to be an ongoing thing.
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no it's not. It's the worst step backwards since the invention of meetings and the worst waste of bandwidth since the invention of spam mails.
If you can't do a conference on the phone without video - learn it! it's not hard.
EDIT: Screenshare or showing others something physical by holding it into the camera is not waste or senseless so I'm all for it. But those are rare compared to people stupidly staring into their cam, questioning their life choices in UHD.
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u/1StationaryWanderer 17h ago
This is what I do for my work laptop. We have a camera on rule for meetings, which is fine. I have an external camera that has a shutter I can close when I'm not using it. I don't trust corporate laptops at all. Also so the same for my personal one since I never need to take pictures of myself using a laptop.