People don’t read. Is dropdown/hover better for this design?

Our website has a home page that has a "about us" section. This section has around 20 staffs (client insist on having this) enter image description here

Can't find the best example, but this section would look something like this but with 20 more staffs. We have the image, name, title, description and social media anchors.

Problem: Since its a home page, this is only 1 section out of 4. We don't want this section to be too long. So we can either:

  1. Make them just images. Hover over to see text. But the concern is will ppl actually hover over these images? Since people don't read, will people actually hover over just to read?

  2. Just have a long page. Nothing wrong with it.

  3. Any other suggestions?