Asklemmy

I wouldn't be surprised they do, but at the same time if they do that it's a major red flag.

I literally won a "silent but deadly" award at a company retreat of which the premise is, I'm a very quiet person but when I do speak up you better pay attention because it's important. I hate talking so when I talk I'm not talking about my weekend, I'm talking about why we can't do that because systems Y and Z will blow up.

I used to be a zoom admin for a very large college before and during the start of COVID. At that time I never recall seeing anything about participation metrics and whatnot. Other than someone recording the meeting and watching it back I don't think there is anything they can see besides who joined and what/if they typed.

I will say the admins can see "private" dms to each other if they really want to. So while nobody else in the call can see what you're typing to your buddy in the moment the admins can if they want to. So don't type anything in those private chats unless you would hypothetically be ok with your boss seeing it.

It's been a few years since I left that job though so it possible they have added more data logging for things like camera and mic "on" time.

Personally even now for my work as long as I connect to the meetings when I'm supposed to they never care if I turn on my webcam or unmute. I'll answer the random question thrown my way, but otherwise I'm on my phone or doing actual work work while sorta half listening to whatever meeting.

Teams does record how much a member talked and displays a bar that shows that information.

I wouldn't be surprised if zoom does something similar.

If zoom is like teams, transcription can identify you. The transcript might give you up but someone has to analyze it.

Who has time for that?

So often, the thing that is easy to measure is seen as important. In this case, the amount said is easy to measure. The quality of what is said is not easy to measure, but more important.