[avl999]

If you are in a small meeting where you are an active participant (daily standup, sprint planning/retrospective, design meetings and basically any activity that involves your direct team) then it is only polite to have your camera on. That said asking people to turn on their camera is also impolite and not something I would argue for.

If you are in an all hands type of meeting or some other very large meeting where you are just listening passively (while doing other work in the background) then it is okay to have the camera turned off.

I always have my camera on for the former type of meetings but only occasionally for the later. That seems to be an unwritten convention based on what I've observed... at-least at the company where I work.

[gaws]

> That said asking people to turn on their camera is also impolite and not something I would argue for.

What's the best way to decline if someone requests you turn your camera?