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For most other chats, or daily stand ups, camera off. But, on that matter, I would encourage you to have a decent photo in lieu of the default user avatar.
The best approach is just to talk about it with your team, and choose your own culture.
Much of communication is non-verbal. Why not increase the bandwidth of person-to-person communication?
I get all my work communication done through voice and shared files. Am I missing information that would otherwise be encoded in implicit facial expressions? Or in the absence of faces, is that being conveyed to me anyway, through voice and explicit verbal means?
I don't like being on camera and I'd wager many (if not most) people don't. We do it because we have to, not because we want to. And I don't have to because I don't work with clients or take roles in which me being on camera for more than 5 minutes during the entire duration of the role is a requirement. Between voice and screen sharing, we can handle all business without monitoring each other's 2-dimensional faces.
I don't begrudge others to have their cameras on, but if someone else has it on, I'll turn mine on.
My trouble is that webcams don’t last long for me, my laptops have defective USB 3.0 ports. I think someday I want to set up a mini tv studio at home but never get around to it.