Stanford study identifies four causes of 'Zoom fatigue' and offers practical fixes

By early 2021, the weariness settling over remote workers after hours of video calls had become a shared human condition — one that Stanford researcher Jeremy Bailenson chose to examine not as complaint, but as science. In the first peer-reviewed psychological study of its kind, Bailenson identified four structural features of videoconferencing platforms that quietly exhaust the mind and body: unnatural eye contact, constant self-observation, enforced stillness, and the cognitive labor of performing communication itself. The platforms, it turns out, were not built for human beings as we actual