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FIR Zoom Chat 4: Zoom burnout

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Neville Hobson

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19 April 2020

With so many people using video conferencing tools – especially Zoom – in their new-normal working from home lockdown environment, there’s a rise in anxiety and stress when it comes to using a tool like this as your primary method of real-time communication across the work/life divide. It’s leading to burnout says Angela Lashbrook writing in OneZero last week: When we’re already forced to conduct our work life via the same means, it’s perfectly reasonable to become overwhelmed when suddenly…
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Zoom burnout is real

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Neville Hobson

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15 April 2020

“Zoom gives me crazy anxiety and the same social pressure I would feel being invited to a party,” says Dani, a marketing manager based in Cleveland, who requested that only her first name be used to protect her workplace privacy. “I have to do Zoom calls all day for work. I cannot socialize that way right now.” OneZero: https://onezero.medium.com/zoom-burnout-is-real-27e6938d0e1f Some good advice and tips in this assessment. Three: Schedule yourself non-negotiable “Zoom time” to ensure you’re not getting wrangled into…
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Living in Lockdown

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12 April 2020

On March 23, 2020, the UK went into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and the consequent emergence of the COVID-19 infection. Since then, it’s been a time of staying home for large numbers of the population, regaled daily by government spokespeople, advertising and social media messages to “Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives.” It’s been a time of an emerging ‘new normal’ that began with panic buying of some household basics especially toilet roll and hand gel (sanitizer);…
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FIR ZoomChat 3: Zoombombed!

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Neville Hobson

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11 April 2020

The third weekly FIR Zoom Chat hosted by Shel and Neville on April 9 got off to a promising start and continued with great discussion with a handful of FIR listeners on preparing now for communicating return-to-work when coronavirus lockdowns are lifted or relaxed. It lasted 21 minutes or so until we were hijacked by a coordinated zoombomb attack featuring many simultaneous zoombombers that ended our discussion. The clue to what was coming, unbeknownst to us, is the unknown fella who joined us…
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SDF 34: “If broadband goes down, we’re all screwed”

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Neville Hobson

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10 April 2020

In the midst of coronavirus lockdowns just about everywhere, I suppose it’s natural for some people to wonder if the Internet can hold up and not collapse under the strain of millions of people suddenly working at home, schooling at home and playing at home, all during the so-called working day and beyond, for an extended period of continuous months. As someone who works for an organisation that’s all about the resilience of the Internet, I also suppose it’s inevitable…
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