It's Not Just You, Even The CEO Of Zoom Is Tired Of Zoom Calls

COVID-19 forced us all to work from home and most of us are now conducting meetings on video conferencing apps, with Zoom being the preferred choice for several individuals out there.

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However, this sudden rise has also made people experience a new phenomenon -- Zoom fatigue -- that is referred to the fatigue experienced by people who are constantly on zoom or video calls one after another.

And this fatigue is also experienced by the CEO of Zoom too. Eric Yuan admitted to feeling this at the Wall Street Journal¡¯s CEO Council Summit. He expressed how he is tired of zoom meetings. He mentioned a day in April last year when he had 19 back to back Zoom meetings.

He said, ¡°I¡¯m so tired of that¡­ I do have meeting fatigue¡±. He stated that in order to circumvent this problem, he now makes sure that he doesn't have back to back meetings.

This was also experienced by Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, which he expressed in last year¡¯s Wall Street Journal¡¯s CEO Council Summit, in October.

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A recent study by Stanford revealed how women feel more exhausted and tired after a video call compared to a man. Researchers discovered that this was mostly due to the ¡®self-focused attention¡¯ or the feeling of how one comes across or appears during a call.

Another factor that researchers found was that many felt trapped in a box, in order to fit in a camera¡¯s field of view. The study also revealed that the calls lasted longer for women than men and they were less likely to take breaks too.

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Researchers asked for organisations to have ¡®no-zoom days¡¯ to offer workers a break from video call-only workload. While being on zoom calls, researchers asked them to use a wider field of view, offering more room in a camera¡¯s frame. They also asked to switch off the camera entirely, if possible, to eliminate the feeling of ¡®mirror anxiety.¡¯