Zoom fatigue
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 00:30 last edited by
Sometimes I spend up to 8 hours a day on zoom. Very little passive engagement. Draining.
Anyone else doing a ton of video conferencing?
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 00:48 last edited by
I spent 4 hours on it on one occasion for a board meeting and was ok, but relieved that such a thing happens only once a quarter.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 01:05 last edited by
If you turn on video, you will have to care about how you "look" to others. If that's how you are expected to do Zoom, I feel for you. For me, I turn off video almost all the time. I do Zoom using my phone and a pair of ear buds. I change postures/positions and I walk around when I do Zoom, only at my laptop when I need to do screen sharing. If I only need to look at someone else's screen, sometimes I can get away with an iPad that I can take and walk around with me. Being able to change posture and being able to walk around reduce fatigue.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 01:22 last edited by xenon
Video on is the norm (which is a new thing for us - we were pretty VC-allergic before this).
Our content and output is slides - so the screen just goes hand in hand with video conferencing. For one on ones without materials to share, I always prefer the phone.
I really am looking forward to going back to the office - I'm pretty sick of talking to a screen.
But I agree with you Ax - walking around is key. Unless I'm talking to a client, I'll often pace around while on zoom.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 01:30 last edited by
Zoom calls for me pretty much need to be video, at the request of Management. So I position the camera to only show my face. Then I stretch my legs for 20 minutes at a time. On another screen on my monitor, I watch X-Files episodes.
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Zoom calls for me pretty much need to be video, at the request of Management. So I position the camera to only show my face. Then I stretch my legs for 20 minutes at a time. On another screen on my monitor, I watch X-Files episodes.
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 01:33 last edited by xenon@Aqua-Letifer If I'm on a call where I'm not talking... I check out HARD. Unfortunately that's rare
And yes - half the time when I'm wearing a button up shirt, I'm also in boxers with my legs up.
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@Aqua-Letifer If I'm on a call where I'm not talking... I check out HARD. Unfortunately that's rare
And yes - half the time when I'm wearing a button up shirt, I'm also in boxers with my legs up.
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 01:39 last edited by@xenon said in Zoom fatigue:
@Aqua-Letifer If I'm on a call where I'm not talking... I check out HARD. Unfortunately that's rare
And yes - half the time when I'm wearing a button up shirt, I'm also in boxers with my legs up.
You're a better man than I. For the past 3 or so Zoom meetings I've been wearing the same Purple Rain t-shirt, hiking pants because they're so lightweight, and sandals.
But believe me when I say your meetings are far more important than mine in every sense.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 02:10 last edited by
I'm the asshole who makes everybody have a video meeting every other day. On the plus side, they're normally only 30 minutes long, and I actually don't mind if they don't show up - to be honest, the main reason I have them is to make sure everybody's OK, but I'm not going to tell them that
My boss has one once a week, which is bearable.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 02:16 last edited by
Yeah, zoom is the new conference call and many one on one calls. Upside is the battery on your phone is getting a major holiday.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 02:52 last edited by
We had a 2 hour HOA board video meeting tonight.
I only turn the camera on when I'm talking.
One guy provided a video feed of him drinking scotch for 2 hours without saying a word. Another showed 2 hours of eating dinner, playing with the dog and walking around the kitchen, without saying a word.
There is always someone with an un-muted mic. Maybe a third of the audio is so broken and scratchy it hurts.
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I'm the asshole who makes everybody have a video meeting every other day. On the plus side, they're normally only 30 minutes long, and I actually don't mind if they don't show up - to be honest, the main reason I have them is to make sure everybody's OK, but I'm not going to tell them that
My boss has one once a week, which is bearable.
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 03:20 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Zoom fatigue:
I'm the asshole who makes everybody have a video meeting every other day. On the plus side, they're normally only 30 minutes long, and I actually don't mind if they don't show up - to be honest, the main reason I have them is to make sure everybody's OK, but I'm not going to tell them that
My boss has one once a week, which is bearable.
My boss started every-other-day video chats with that very intention: check in on folks, see how everyone's doing, ask questions about whatever, vent if needed, etc. Just to keep up some degree of normalcy throughout all of this.
That all went away with our new department head. So, stretching + X-Files it is. I'm on S4E6.
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wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 13:03 last edited by
I'm doing 69 chords on the guitar. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
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I'm doing 69 chords on the guitar. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 13:09 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Zoom fatigue:
I'm doing 69 chords on the guitar. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
Careful about snapping that G string.
There it is. That's the one joke. Now we can get back to whatever it was we were doing.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Zoom fatigue:
I'm doing 69 chords on the guitar. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
Careful about snapping that G string.
There it is. That's the one joke. Now we can get back to whatever it was we were doing.
wrote on 21 Jul 2020, 13:58 last edited by George K@Aqua-Letifer said in Zoom fatigue:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Zoom fatigue:
I'm doing 69 chords on the guitar. Not nearly as much fun as it sounds.
Careful about snapping that G string.
There it is. That's the one joke. Now we can get back to whatever it was we were doing.
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wrote on 25 Jul 2020, 13:34 last edited by
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wrote on 25 Jul 2020, 14:17 last edited by
I'm going to quietly print out a picture of our CEO and hang it on my wall before the next meeting to see if anybody notices.
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I'm going to quietly print out a picture of our CEO and hang it on my wall before the next meeting to see if anybody notices.
wrote on 25 Jul 2020, 15:44 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Zoom fatigue:
I'm going to quietly print out a picture of our CEO and hang it on my wall before the next meeting to see if anybody notices.
Our most-awesome department head told my boss and I that discussing Romero films pre-meeting was unprofessional, so I keep changing my Zoom background to stills from the movies. No zombies in the stills, but half the team knows what I'm up to and they haven't ratted me out yet.
I also keep asking earnestly before the meeting starts if what we're discussing is okay.
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wrote on 25 Jul 2020, 15:46 last edited by
Control freaks.
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wrote on 25 Jul 2020, 15:49 last edited by
@Mik said in Zoom fatigue:
Control freaks.
Yeah, but not smart ones. Like, smart enough to notice I started using Zoom backgrounds but not at all smart enough to put 2 and 2 together. You wanna lose the one thing you care about as a control-freak manager and risk having a stroke? Keep it up, says I!
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wrote on 25 Jul 2020, 16:48 last edited by
These folks don’t understand the depths of Aqua’s spite arsenal.
