Four reasons why Zoom is so exhausting and what you can do about it
During the pandemic, the phrase “Zoom fatigue” became part of our vocabulary.
(Illustration by Steve Breen / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Feb. 25, 2021 12:34 PM PT
One week into stay-at-home orders last year, Jeremy Bailenson was talking to a BBC reporter and had an epiphany.
“Why are we Zooming? There’s no need for us to be on Zoom,” he thought. A phone call would have sufficed.
This kernel of realization became an op-ed article that Bailenson wrote in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Zoom Meetings Can Exhaust Us.”