caslion.blogg.se - What is zoom fatigue

You get the home jitters and desperately need to go out all the time.

You constantly think of work, even when not working.

I have even been asked to hop on a “quick” video call on a Saturday night. But working from home, you can always hop on a Zoom call.įor me, recently the biggest struggle has been that everyone wants to “hop on a video call.” We have no barriers, no boundaries because everyone assumes that video calls are an always-on option. Once you are out of the office it is much harder (and more invasive) to reach out to someone after hours.

And this number is only growing.īut there’s a problem: Zoom makes it even harder to unplug from work.Īt an office, you can leave work.

↑ Table of Contents ↑ #2: Zoom is always available…Īs reported in 2020, five million employees work from home at least half the time. And we might not be able to read much body language in video calls- maybe until augmented reality becomes the norm, that is. The second you enter a Zoom call, you enter this “constructed awkwardness bubble” that video calls artificially create. Not to mention many cues only last fractions of a second- difficult to pick up in real life, but near impossible with lag and bad video quality. Hand gestures, microexpressions, lower body language - all these things are much harder to read during a video call. In a normal face-to-face interaction, we can see people and make direct eye contact. Zoom makes it incredibly hard to have real human connection because it diminishes how much we can communicate with our body language. It’s how we tell our friends from enemies, know when someone is happy or sad, and how we build trust and connection.

↑ Table of Contents ↑ #1: You can’t read body languageīody language has been around long before people even had words to express themselves. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ 5 Ways Zoom Fatigue Affects You