Zoom Fatigue Greater for Women by Colleen Fleiss on April 18, 2021 at 11:03 PM
Zoom fatigue, the feeling of exhaustion that comes from a day of back-to-back online meetings is greater for women than men, revealed a new Stanford University research.
What contributed most to the feeling of exhaustion among women was an increase in what social psychologists describe as self-focused attention triggered by the self-view in video conferencing, according to the study released on the Social Science Research Network. Self-focused attention refers to a heightened awareness of how one comes across or how one appears in a conversation, said co-author of the new study Jeffrey Hancock, Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities and Sciences.