{"id":16714,"date":"2021-01-25T16:36:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T15:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=16714"},"modified":"2021-01-29T08:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T07:26:07","slug":"people-have-zoom-fatigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2021\/01\/people-have-zoom-fatigue\/","title":{"rendered":"People Have Zoom Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the COVID-19 pandemic happened, only very few people have heard about Zoom. According to its executives, Zoom&#8217;s downloads rose more than 1000% from 10 million in December 2019 to up to 200 million in March 2020. The sudden increase in the number of users also happened to other video conferencing software as more and more people started telecommuting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As good as it may sound, telecommuting is not for everybody. As more and more people are dreading the routine of looking at the screen in order to interact with colleagues, &#8216;zoom fatigue&#8217;, or the overuse of video conferencing, is becoming a bitter pill to swallow for some. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click the link and read the article to know more about zoom fatigue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-55320156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-55320156<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Do you use any video conferencing software for work? Tell us more about its upsides and downsides.<\/li><li>Are you currently telecommuting? If yes, how is it going for you?<\/li><li>Do you think telecommuting is here to stay? Why or why not?<\/li><li>Have you experienced zoom fatigue? If yes, how did you deal with it?<\/li><li>Is there any feature that you wish video conferencing software has that is not available at the moment?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate Before the COVID-19 pandemic happened, only very few people have heard about Zoom. According to its executives, Zoom&#8217;s downloads rose more than 1000% from 10 million in December 2019 to up to 200 million in March 2020. 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