Encourage employees to set boundaries around their personal time.We’ve been doing this since late last year at Zoom and our employees love it. Implement a “no internal meetings day” to give yourself and your employees a break.Try turning off self-view so you can see your colleagues’ faces, and so they can see yours, without having to see yourself.Use chat or email in lieu of a meeting.Book meetings for 25 minutes or 55 minutes (or even try going down to 20 or 45 minutes), or end meetings early to give everyone a buffer to recover mentally between meetings.Take scheduled breaks away from the computer.
Here are some of my own practices to limit strain from a high volume of video conference meetings: That’s why leaders must find ways to make meetings more manageable as employees continue to work remotely.
After all, the pandemic has shown how fatigue, especially video meeting fatigue, can impact productivity, job satisfaction and work-life balance. It’s a record that some may be able to beat, but I’ll admit it was a struggle to make it through.Īs with everything in life, moderation is critical, and when Zoom was founded 10 years ago, the intent was never to replace in-person interactions altogether. My personal record is 19 Zoom meetings in a day. It is incredibly hard to abruptly pivot from a social, in-person work environment to a world where we only see images of faces on a screen. And many workers are feeling fatigue from joining a steady stream of video meetings each day.Īs someone who has spent many days and nights on Zoom over the last 12 months talking to people all around the world, I can relate. Even as our worker population starts to get vaccinated, elevated usage rates have persisted. We felt - and continue to feel - unbelievably privileged to help so many people keep their lives moving forward. Within weeks, usage of our platform increased exponentially, with hundreds of millions of meeting participants relying on Zoom to stay connected to their customers, colleagues, family and friends. At the outset of the pandemic, Zoom became an instrumental part of many people’s lives and livelihoods almost overnight.
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