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ZOOM ETIQUETTE TO HELP COMBAT ZOOM FATIGUE Zoom fatigue. By now, you’ve not only heard of it – you’ve experienced it. Before the pandemic, those of us who worked from home were accustomed to conducting most of our meetings remotely. Now that remote meetings are the norm, it seems everyone is feeling a little more burnt out than usual. Zoom meetings are causing fatigue because we have to make more emotional effort to appear and stay engaged during hour after hour of online meetings – followed by more Zooming with friends and family after work. In the absence of nonverbal cues, we’re all straining a little harder to pay attention and maintain sustained eye contact all day long, which can be draining. There are a few things all of us can do to combat the fatigue – while still maintaining Zoom etiquette.
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Turning on your camera should be optional. Reserve your camera for important communications such as one-on-ones with your manager or leadership calls that require you to follow social cueing. Pick a few meetings each day where you can give your camera – and you – a break. Just remember that turning off the camera doesn’t In general, Zoom etiquette is the same as mean it’s time to multitask. We’ve all been on face-to-face meeting etiquette: be prepared, be on meetings when someone says “Sorry, I was time and avoid multitasking or talking over other on mute. Can you repeat that question?” or participants when they are speaking. “I didn’t catch that last part – can you repeat that?” If you’re multitasking, you probably don’t need to spend your time at the meeting – which leads us to the next tip. To really up your game, adjust your camera to be at eye level so that other people aren’t looking up Come prepared your nose or at the side of your face. Make sure you have good lighting so that you look less tired Come to the meeting with an expectation about from all the extra hours you’re putting in now that the workday never really ends. It’s also important to what you will need to be an effective participant. Back when we gathered physically, do you practice your presentation and how to share your remember the people who wandered into the screen before meetings so that you can avoid the meeting but didn’t contribute or track to-dos? No embarrassment of everyone looking at the web paper, no pen, no notebook, no PC. page you still have up on your desktop called “DIY 10 | NOVEMBER 2020 |
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