Should Teams Record Every Meeting? The Case for Transcript-First Workflows

Recording every meeting feels responsible. It creates a complete record, preserves tone and gives absentees a way to catch up. In practice, most recordings are never watched. They also create storage costs, privacy exposure and retention questions. For many teams, a transcript-first workflow is more useful. Recordings are heavy Video recordings are valuable when visuals matter: product demos, training sessions, user interviews, legal contexts or presentations where tone and body language are…