Four reasons you're tired of Zoom calls - and how to fix it Paulina Firozi and Allyson Chiu, The Washington Post March 3, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Jeremy Bailenson was exhausted. It was a Friday in late March and he had just finished his first full week working from home during the pandemic - nine-hour days spent glued to a laptop in a spare bedroom of his house. Then, a reporter asked him to jump on another video call for an interview. He thought to himself: Why does this need to happen on video? It's been nearly a year since he first experienced that video call-induced exhaustion - an early glimpse of what millions of others may have faced since beginning to work remotely. Now, he's published a paper outlining why video chats may exact such a mental toll, and suggesting how you can reduce fatigue.