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> Your co-workers have a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding their home life and family members.

I think you are overthinking it. I've seen people use it when it provides no real material benefit other than the placebo effect on the user to believe that the blur makes other people focus on their face.

Yeah, this is why I use the background blur. I have my wife's and my hobbystuff behind me. Can't really align the video/pc setup any other way. Rather provide a blur than a confusion of guitars, sewing kit and such.

Is it really that hard to set up a greenscreen for this? I can look out accross the street and see a number of people who have done this in their tiny apartments. If I cared about people being able to see the room behind my WFH set up I would do it too. Thankfully for me it just points at the wall I use as a projector screen so there's nothing to see. Plus my team seems to have just given up on video anyway.