

The study infers that these situations don’t call for us to completely abandon video conferencing. More effort having to interpret non-verbal cues.

Less mobility while calls are in progress.Heightened self-critique seeing our own faces on calls.Excessive amounts of unnatural eye contact.They discovered four factors contributing to exhaustion after being on video calls throughout the day. Researchers at Stanford dove deeper into the phenomenon.

But it begs the question - why do we feel this way? Perhaps we’ve come to terms with the fact that back-to-back video calls aren’t a recipe for productivity and deeply engaged work. You've likely come across the term “Zoom fatigue” when discussing the state of communication in remote and hybrid settings.
