[zachpendleton]

I'm a hard no on this. I work in education, where everything went from in-person to online in the course of a few weeks and everyone (expectedly) hated it. synchronous online destroyed the previous advantage of online (asynchronous) and hasn't found a way to provide any benefit over synchronous in-person.

there is a clear opportunity for better video experience online but I expect that 2021 will be the year that everyone runs screaming for the classroom and office.

[ColinWright]

It will evolve. Video meetings are meetings, hence synchronous. Email and messages are asynchronous. Each have their uses, both are abused and misused, and over time, teams and groups start to evolve their work processes based around the capabilities that exist.

The best managers guide that evolution, but recognise that different people work in different ways.

But video conferencing/meetings is a capability to be used, and I look forward to seeing how it improves. Rejecting it out-of-hand simply because it's currently sub-optimal and badly used seems short-sighted.