I would have hated attending lectures at school on zoom. My focus isn’t great on video content. However work is a completely different context. First, the abil

I would have hated attending lectures at school on zoom. My focus isn’t great on video content. However work is a completely different context. First, the ability to meet quickly and resolve issues synchronously is generally better on zoom than trying to get everyone into a room, especially in any modern company with more than one location. Everyone being on zoom rather than a floating head on the screen watching the back of everyone’s head is vastly worse than everyone on zoom. Second, the meetings don’t degenerate into social hour but typically stay on point. Third, I can look things up and read materials as the meeting goes without sitting staring at my computer or phone during a meeting that’s degenerating into a social hour. Zoom fatigue as it’s called it probably nothing more than trying to retain dry content with distractions - definitely in front of the computer there’s a lot of stuff to distract from the talking head and the talking head isn’t that compelling. In person they dominate your mental and social world by construction. But in meetings that’s not necessary not necessarily optimal for best decision making. And if you don’t need to be there and the content is boring and pointless you can zone out.