Virtual Meetings and Your Brain: Four Ways to Refresh

Online meetings are still wearing us out. Neuroscience research shows that they are uniquely fatiguing, but there are ways to make them more manageable.

Almost as soon as the COVID-19 pandemic forced the widespread adoption of remote working practices, the term “Zoom fatigue” entered the business lexicon as a synonym of the tiredness, worry, or burnout associated with the use of meeting platforms such as Zoom, Teams, and Webex. Workers reported feeling exhausted by the endless cycle of virtual meetings and attributed their low energy levels to factors such as the lack of natural interactions with colleagues or the increased self-consciousness from the perception of others staring at them.

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/virtual-meetings-and-your-brain-four-ways-to-refresh/