The solution to Zoom fatigue is to eliminate meetings where the purpose is to share basic facts & information.
Save meetings for collaboration, relationship-building, and working on thorny problems.
Save meetings for collaboration, relationship-building, and working on thorny problems.
Just an fyi to avoid derailing the topic...
The "fatigue" the author is talking about is not about frequency of useless and redundant meetings.
Her usage of "fatigue" is specifically talking about bad sound quality and some ideas on how to change the acoustic environment to improve it.
Whether everybody in the press uses "zoom fatigue" the same way I can't say. In any case, it's the fatigue from suboptimal sound environments is how the author of this thread's article is using it.
I've definitely noticed mental fatigue from the changed aural environment in my house. I normally work from home, but now that my wife is also WFH, I've realized that hearing her on zoom at the same time as I'm in a meeting (or trying to concentrate) just melts my brain. Can't actually comment on zoom sound quality as have a pair of headphones that doesn't drive me completely nuts, and didn't notice anything about it in the previous few years of WFH...
I hope that if video conferencing stays more popular we will see a lot of progress there. Cell phone cameras have shown what can be achieved with enough computation so I hope the same can be done for video conferencing. The current solutions are still very primitive as far as sound and image quality goes.
And if the siblings are right, and the OP is using the term to speak only of fatigue due to bad audio then OP has misappropriated the term.
I'll link the vid in my profile if anyone cares.