That means a year of working from home, business casual from the waist up, and staring at your colleagues’ faces in a 13-inch grid.
Zoom has become a huge part of today’s work flow, with a 470% increase in customers having more than 10 employees from this time last year, the company says.
A Stanford analysis explains with a breakdown of the four causes of “zoom fatigue. “
But a Zoom call “smothers everyone with gaze,” so thought they are just staring at a camera, it simulates a confrontation and triggers your fight-or-flight instincts.
It’s not narcissism; it’s what happens on every Zoom call.
And if you find yourself staring at that one little box that contains your own face, you’re not the only one.
The constant self-evaluation can make you more stressed, and science says the effects are worse on women.
Zoom fatigue traps us in a box.
In fact, “people who are walking, even when it is indoors, come up with more creative ideas than people who are sitting. ” So video conferences literally stop us from thinking outside of the box.
Bailenson doesn’t see Zoom disappearing any time soon.
The most helpful change you can make when video conferencing: Collapse that self-image box so it’s out of view.
Use an external web cam, or opt for more phone call meetings — so you can get up and think out of that Zoom box.
