My Colleagues Are Right. We Should Keep Cameras Off

<p>There has been a running battle at my employer over the last few years. I think we can now announce that the results are in. After all of this time, my employer is right and the vast majority of employees are wrong.</p> <blockquote> <p>This is different from usual. Usually&nbsp;<strong>both</strong>&nbsp;the employers and employees are wrong.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Post-Covid Hybrid Rules</h2> <p>My particular employer decided that after the pandemic workers could WFH in a&nbsp;<strong><em>hybrid</em></strong>&nbsp;way.</p> <blockquote> <p>They didn&rsquo;t spend any money giving us monitors, chairs, or equipment to facilitate the transition.</p> </blockquote> <p>Despite the type of complaints,&nbsp;<strong><em>The Secret Developer</em></strong>&nbsp;has mentioned, we&rsquo;ve had an interesting time mixing face-to-face and online working.</p> <blockquote> <p>If my interesting, you mean disastrous.</p> </blockquote> <h2>Segregated Mixer events</h2> <p>I&rsquo;ve seen our discouraging attitudes practically bring down events.</p> <p>Let me run you through this. We have a large number of&nbsp;<em>offshore resources&nbsp;</em>that we wanted to feel *included* in our away day, along with colleagues who could not make it to the office (the cat got sick, the tortoise moved faster than usual, or whatever reason).</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@tsecretdeveloper/my-colleagues-are-right-we-should-keep-cameras-off-29551865194f"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>