![]() ![]() ![]() 6 We extend this line of inquiry to examine one factor that potentially explains why some people experience mirror anxiety and thus VM fatigue: facial appearance dissatisfaction (or simply facial dissatisfaction). 7, 10 Supporting this reasoning and highlighting the importance of this topic, a 4-week field experiment found that VM fatigue was higher for participants randomly assigned to keep their cameras on (compared with off) during VMs and that VM fatigue fully mediated a negative effect of camera condition on worker voice and engagement during meetings. 9 This study builds on research suggesting that viewing self-video causes mirror anxiety-negative self-focused attention-which is psychologically taxing and contributes to VM fatigue. VM fatigue has been identified as a detriment to worker well-being and productivity 5, 6 and is theorized to result from multiple factors, including increased cognitive load due to prolonged gaze from others, the apparent closeness of others, and reduced mobility 7 unmet expectations regarding synchrony and nonverbal cues 8 and the loss of a sense of place, lessened scaffolding and supervision, and reduced dynamic and nonconscious distribution of work among teammates. Given the prevalence of remote work both during and likely beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, 1–4 it is important to understand and address the exhaustion that occurs after long periods of videoconferences, referred to as “Zoom fatigue,” videoconferencing fatigue, or virtual meeting (VM) fatigue. ![]()
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