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The science of "Zoom fatigue"


Why “audio gaps" in video meetings wear us out — and why we need the meaningful relationships forged in communal workspaces.

Trying to follow two people speaking at once is fairly impossible for the same reason multitaskers fare poorly: attempting to handle two or more simultaneous tasks quickly maxes out our fixed operating bandwidth. Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, likens our sudden immersion in videoconferencing to spending an entire workday holding a mirror in our hand. Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, likens our sudden immersion in videoconferencing to spending an entire workday holding a mirror in our hand.

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