Worth Reading – Microsoft Teams Audio‑Only Meeting Recording: How it Works and Why it Keeps Meetings Human
My experience with meetings and recording meetings tells me that this is true:
People join meetings from their homes, personal offices, or shared spaces they don’t want permanently captured. Being recorded on video in those environments doesn’t feel right for everyone, and that hesitation is entirely reasonable. Until recently, recording a meeting in Teams meant recording everything. If you needed a record of the discussion, you also asked people to accept being visually captured.
I’m glad we can now record only the audio. It makes it slightly less intrusive to record a meeting that others may need to listen to later. It’s also easier to deal with an audio recording – think about all the ways we listen to podcasts versus watching videos. Obviously, if the meeting involves screensharing and important visual information, the video is still necessary (Though I really do not understand why anyone expects people to stay on camera when the meeting is based on seeing the screen, not each other), but there’s no reason to force everyone to not only be on camera, but have a recording of themselves throughout the entire meeting.
It’s exhausting enough just to be in these meetings. Don’t make it worse.
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