If you or your team members are exhausting and stressed from living the Zoom life, you’re not alone:
- Millions of people suffer from ‘Zoom’ fatigue, which includes symptoms such as exhaustion at day’s end, aching back, shoulders, and head, and feelings of detachment.
- 4 in 10 remote workers report feeling a sense of physical and mental exhaustion after spending time on video calls.
- Women reportedly suffer higher levels of stress during video conferencing than men. This may be linked to ‘mirror anxiety,’ where seeing oneself on the screen cause self-scrutiny.
Zoom fatigue should be addressed promptly, so it doesn’t add to the mental and physical burden of COVID-19. This is especially true as workplaces become more virtual and there is a need more cross-disciplinary approaches that encompass cognition, engineering, and human kinetics.
