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Low Engagement As a Deliberate Practice of Remote Participants in Video Meetings

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Many employees who join work video meetings remotely are frustrated by technological constraints on their engagement. While we should seek to deepen engagement for those who want it, in this paper we explore how low engagement by remote employees in video meetings can also be a social choice. Employees don't always need to engage fully in all or part of a meeting, and they use the technology to help communicate that choice. We argue that video meeting systems should expand the spectrum of engagement levels for remote meeting participants.

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