Pre-pandemic, white-collar workers felt meeting exhaustion. Then came Zoom fatigue. Now, they're experiencing a bit of both, sometimes at the same time.
In this new stage of work, during which some people are back in the office, others are hybrid and some are permanently remote, many workers are being bombarded by an onslaught of meetings. And a lot of those meetings are now on video services like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet. But back-to-back meetings often breed exhaustion, a feeling of decreased productivity and sometimes even dread, leaving many to wonder how to escape death by meeting.
