[Falcorian]

It's definitely a culture thing, probably more at the company level but certainly country level culture matters as well.

At my San Francisco based fintech, the culture that's developed is:

For one-on-ones and small meetings where everybody is expected to participate, cameras are on.

For large one to many broadcasts (like an all hands) generally people turn the camera off.

But I would say probably 95% my meetings have cameras on, so I'm constantly "seeing people".

[ghaff]

Pretty much the same. At moderately large East Coast company, big (usually optional) informational meetings, non-presenters usually have their cameras off. Small team meetings and 1:1s, cameras are mostly on though no one will object if someone has to shut theirs off for some reason.