I struggle with the premise of this comment for this reason: > If you are getting exhausted by video calls, something is wrong. You should not be spending all

I struggle with the premise of this comment for this reason: > If you are getting exhausted by video calls, something is wrong. You should not be spending all your days on calls, doing even more meetings than before. Is not congruent with > your teams should be figuring out their own personal WFH environments - we are all different There are many reasons to be exhausted by video calls that have nothing to do with something being "wrong". Some general thoughts on the topic. 1. For some, video interaction is highly personal. You're inviting work into your home, and even with virtual backgrounds and quick access to the mute button, video can be exhausting for these reasons and/or just because it's video. Not everyone has adjusted as well as others to this form of communication. 2. You're describing a desired end state, which is not necessarily the current reality. Small and agile teams/companies may have more success in fundamentally altering their communication structures and habits. Larger (and especially growing) orgs haven't necessarily mastered this. Entire teams who have never worked remotely have been asked to adjust overnight. And even though we've all been in this for awhile now, the organizational change required to truly alter the meaning of a meeting, or perhaps remove the need for that meeting altogether is not something that will be achieved any time soon for some companies. 3. I can fully dedicate myself to making "remote work effective for myself" (and in fact, I have - I've been remote for ~7 years), but making those changes for myself does not automatically translate to changes for the team/org. Anecdotally, pre-COVID, I spent ~6-7 days/month IN the office to handle those things that are better accomplished in person. That's what made it work for me. That's no longer an option, AND everyone who I worked with - folks who were not remote workers - are all going through their own personal transition and set of struggles unique to their home life, personality, prior WFH experience, etc. I don't disagree with some aspects of your conclusion - but I'd argue that they are unreasonable to achieve without a company-wide commitment to changing how we work, and those changes will not happen quickly for most. This is why people are clamoring to get back.