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Something like that would be tremendously useful when you're one person who's WFH. It would be nice to take a glance at the office webcam, and see if my coworkers are actually at their desks before pinging them a question - otherwise, I'm not sure if they're about to respond, or busy away from their desk, etc.

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Could you imagine using the current feature set to do this? Is there anything missing?

I think you'd have to have a dedicated machine with a camera for this; otherwise, you'd have to ask one of your coworkers to basically be constantly on-camera for you. That's not a limitation of the service, though.

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