Zoom fatigue is real and worse for women, one study says. Here s why Share Updated: 12:35 PM EDT Apr 23, 2021 Brittany Johnson Share Updated: 12:35 PM EDT Apr 23, 2021
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Show Transcript SUMMER. GOOGLE SAID IT’S GOING TO WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER VIDEO CALLS HAVE TAKEN OVER PEOPLE’S WORK AND PERSONAL LIVES DURING THE PANDEMIC THE SHIFT FROM IN-PERSON MEETINGS TO VIRTUAL HAS TAKEN A TOLL ON SOCIETY. PARTICULARLY AMONG WOMEN CASE AREA 3 IS BRITTANY JOHNSON HAS MORE ON THIS NEW STUDY AND SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS. VIRTUAL MEETINGS THEY’RE HAPPENING DAILY. SOMETIMES MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY CALL. GIVE ME THEIR NAMES AND THE WEBSITE AND NOW LOOK AND SEE MAYBE THERE’S BOARD MEMBERS OR SOMETHING THAT WE CAN GO TO AFTER CALL. I DO HAVE A FEW RENTAL PROPERTIES UP IN SACRAMENTO NORTH SO IT LOOKS LIKE THAT MARKET IS VERY HOT ONE OF THE HOTTEST MARKETS IN THE COUNTRY AFTER CALL. MY NAME IS CRYSTAL WHITEHEAD. I HAVE A SALON IN ELK GROV
By Scott Stevens
Apr 21, 2021
Zoom burnout is real … especially for women. According to researchers at Stanford University, Zoom fatigue is real – and is especially experienced by women. According to the study, 13.8% of women reported feeling “very” to “extremely” fatigued after Zoom calls, compared to 5.5% of men. The biggest reason? Women looking at themselves – aka “self-focused attention.”
“Self-focused attention refers to a heightened awareness of how one comes across or how one appears in a conversation,” said study author Professor Jeffrey Hancock. Basically … women focus on the way they look during Zoom calls … which stresses them out.
Feeling exhausted at the end of a long day of video-conferencing? Do your back, shoulders and mind ache after a Zoom meeting marathon? Do you miss the morning chit chat at the office’s water fountain and the face-to-face interaction with your favourite colleague?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, believe me, you’re one of millions suffering from Zoom fatigue, named after the popular video-conferencing app.
Recent figures in fact indicate that four in 10 remote workers report suffering from a sense of physical and mental exhaustion that accompanies the prolonged screen engagement and the lack of face-to-face interaction during the workday.
(Photo : Pexels/Liza Summer) Microsoft Outlook break meeting
If you dread opening your Microsoft Outlook calendar because it always shows back-to-back meetings that always leaves you drained at the end of the day, you are not alone.
Microsoft brain wave activity researchers studied worker s brains on back-to-back virtual meetings, and they were displeased with what they saw, especially what was going on along the gray matter.
Microsoft Outlook gives meeting breaks
The research was published on Apr. 20 on the Microsoft blog, and it confirmed that back-to-back virtual meetings are very stressful, and now, the research is resulting in a silver of mercy arriving on Apr. 20 for Outlook users.