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Zoom fatigue unpacked

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Re: Zoom fatigue unpacked

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Post by ethbr0 »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #7
neap24 wrote: post #5

I’m a big advocate of reducing Zoom/screen fatigue by doing manual labor after the work day. Do a home maintenance project, throw a ball with the kids in the backyard, etc.

The hard part is to start, but once you have done it, you feel better. Even a simple chore like cleaning will help. Going to the supermarket will not, since you can get quiet and focused on the physicality. Just walking outside will do it you have nothing to do.

I have a mini trampoline type swing hung under a tree.

Long day = taking a break at lunch and after work to just lay on it, look up into the leaves, and listen to the wind in the tree

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Post by FpUser »

Did they mention general meeting fatigue? Just before covid I was doing some contract for org with many developers. Amount of meetings they had was staggering. I am an independent vendor and organize my time however I see fit but if I was forced to participate in the insanity I've observed I would go insane.

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Post by mcbuilder »

ehnto wrote: post #9

I turn my camera off on big calls and it helps a bunch, there's a process running in the back of my mind when it's on that is constantly screening what I am doing just incase it looks stupid on camera. It feels like being in a panopticon. You never know if someone is looking. It's very tiring. I don't have the same issue in person because you know when people are looking at you in person and there's heaps of context…

I always keep my camera off unless it's a handful of situations, like meeting someone for the first time, or making a big presentation and introducing myself. Turning the camera on is more the rare thing.

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Post by bee_rider »

The perspective mismatch between desktop and laptop users can be a bit funny, laptop users tend to be close to the screen, so they take up their cameras’ full field of view. Blown up on a big desktop screen it is like they are right in your face. It really can feel uncomfortably intimate, as silly as that sounds!

Luckily my monitor was on an arm, so I could do one setup for Zoom, one for meetings.

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Post by stndef »

ehnto wrote: post #9

I turn my camera off on big calls and it helps a bunch, there's a process running in the back of my mind when it's on that is constantly screening what I am doing just incase it looks stupid on camera. It feels like being in a panopticon. You never know if someone is looking. It's very tiring. I don't have the same issue in person because you know when people are looking at you in person and there's heaps of context…

I discovered the same as well, highly recommend turning off the camera.

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Post by noman-land »

ehnto wrote: post #9

I turn my camera off on big calls and it helps a bunch, there's a process running in the back of my mind when it's on that is constantly screening what I am doing just incase it looks stupid on camera. It feels like being in a panopticon. You never know if someone is looking. It's very tiring. I don't have the same issue in person because you know when people are looking at you in person and there's heaps of context…

I want you and everyone else to know that sometimes on large zoom calls I will "pin" one person in the call and stare at them for multiple minutes in a row on fullscreen. I do this all the time.

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Post by trillic »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #7
neap24 wrote: post #5

I’m a big advocate of reducing Zoom/screen fatigue by doing manual labor after the work day. Do a home maintenance project, throw a ball with the kids in the backyard, etc.

The hard part is to start, but once you have done it, you feel better. Even a simple chore like cleaning will help. Going to the supermarket will not, since you can get quiet and focused on the physicality. Just walking outside will do it you have nothing to do.

Kids have recess. Why not adults too?

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Post by brnt »

ethbr0 wrote: post #11
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hard part is to start, but once you have done it, you feel better. Even a simple chore like cleaning will help. Going to the supermarket will not, since you can get quiet and focused on the physicality. Just walking outside will do it you have nothing to do.

I have a mini trampoline type swing hung under a tree. Long day = taking a break at lunch and after work to just lay on it, look up into the leaves, and listen to the wind in the tree

Ah, the joys of not having to pickup children from daycare :/

Re: Zoom fatigue unpacked

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Post by metadaemon »

trillic wrote: post #17
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hard part is to start, but once you have done it, you feel better. Even a simple chore like cleaning will help. Going to the supermarket will not, since you can get quiet and focused on the physicality. Just walking outside will do it you have nothing to do.

Kids have recess. Why not adults too?

When it’s not blisteringly hot out we actually will take a 30-45 minute walk around midday. Helps a ton and has a side effect of allowing my subconscious to solve the problems I’ve been stuck on.

Re: Zoom fatigue unpacked

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Post by gymbeaux »

noman-land wrote: post #16
ehnto wrote: post #9

I turn my camera off on big calls and it helps a bunch, there's a process running in the back of my mind when it's on that is constantly screening what I am doing just incase it looks stupid on camera. It feels like being in a panopticon. You never know if someone is looking. It's very tiring. I don't have the same issue in person because you know when people are looking at you in person and there's heaps of context…

I want you and everyone else to know that sometimes on large zoom calls I will "pin" one person in the call and stare at them for multiple minutes in a row on fullscreen. I do this all the time.

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