Zoom fatigue: how to beat stress and anxiety at work

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Micro-breaks, calls without cameras and a partial return to the office could help to ease the strain, researchers say. Photo: Pexels

 

(Daniel Bardsley/ The National News) — When the coronavirus hit, one of the biggest upheavals was swapping office life for home-working.

But rather than the dream scenario some expected, it has brought new stresses and strains.

Back-to-back online meetings create feelings of exhaustion called “Zoom fatigue”. And although one could write such afflictions off as first-world problems, understanding how hundreds of millions of us can work productively is crucial.

One recent study even claimed this is a bigger problem for women, 13.8 per cent of whom said Zoom calls made them feel “very to extremely fatigued”, compared to 5.5 per cent of men. (…)

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