<story><title>Zoom fatigue unpacked</title><url>https://leadership.garden/zoom-fatigue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>Of course, the elephant in the room is that people need to stop having so many meetings. Those of us who have been working remotely for a decade or more never had this problem - we use async communications, quick one-off calls when needed, and really never spent all our time in meetings. But when everyone moved to remote work a few years ago, this culture of meetings all day came up... and it still confuses me. It isn&amp;#x27;t effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrismarlow9</author><text>Agreed it is the weirdest thing ever to me that people don&amp;#x27;t email anymore. Just send an email. In an email it&amp;#x27;s written down and I can search for it. In an email I can think at my own pace and respond without worrying about trampling others. In an email people can&amp;#x27;t ramble on and on and if they do you can just not read the email. And if it&amp;#x27;s work to be done, just make a ticket.&lt;p&gt;The amount of meeting time waste baffles me. And then you try to make them productive and include information in the invite and you show up and nobody read it. So now you have to waste more time when you could have just gone directly into brainstorming.&lt;p&gt;At this point I kind of just give up. I make my suggestions to make things more efficient and try to remember that even if the work gets done sooner I won&amp;#x27;t be working any less.</text></comment>
<story><title>Zoom fatigue unpacked</title><url>https://leadership.garden/zoom-fatigue/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>codingdave</author><text>Of course, the elephant in the room is that people need to stop having so many meetings. Those of us who have been working remotely for a decade or more never had this problem - we use async communications, quick one-off calls when needed, and really never spent all our time in meetings. But when everyone moved to remote work a few years ago, this culture of meetings all day came up... and it still confuses me. It isn&amp;#x27;t effective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>janosdebugs</author><text>This, thank you. I recently quit my corporate job and we started our own company with my wife... never been so productive. Meetings are truly productivity killers. Why hire smart people for a lot of money to then have them sit around in groups of 10+, half listening, half braindead?</text></comment>