The virtual meeting should be a low-stress alternative to the in-person meeting, but Zoomers are exhausted. Here's why.
Zoom meetings are exploding around the world, in every profession and among every social group. You can now connect both personally and professionally with everyone from your boss on the other side of town, to your grandson on the other side of the world. Virtual meetings are easy to both schedule and attend, from the comfort of home. Sounds pretty convenient. You only need to get half-dressed , comb your hair , and create a presentable “face”—since that is all anyone will see.
pandemic has “launched an unofficial social experiment, showing at a population scale what’s always been true: virtual interactions can be extremely hard on the brain.”for often hours on end, nodding appropriately, smiling awkwardly, and trying to observe virtual meeting protocol of maintaining eye contact with the tiny camera at the top of our computer.
Sklar sheds some additional light on the mental complications of the gallery view. She explains that this “Brady Bunch-style” screen option challenges the central vision of the brain, “forcing it to decode so many people at once that no one comes through meaningfully, not even the speaker.
Could this explain the way we feel after a day of Zoom calls? Perhaps a better question is: Why was our day filled with Zoom calls, to begin with?We are Zoomed-out because of overuse. Some business and social groups are over-communicating: holding virtual meetings to discuss issues that would previously have been appropriately communicated by email or text message—if at all.
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