How agencies can combat Zoom fatigue

Most of us don’t go a day without someone talking about “Zoom fatigue.” Some agencies have moved to Zoom-free Wednesdays or camera-off Fridays, or other approaches to combat it.

But the problem isn’t the technology. Zoom is great. Video conferencing is a fantastic tool.

The real problem is that there are too many unnecessary meetings with unnecessary participants.

Chip and Gini discuss how to get things under control without resorting to gimmicky solutions.

Transcript

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Chip Griffin  

Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Agency Leadership Podcast. I’m Chip Griffin,

Gini Dietrich  

and I’m Gini Dietrich,

Chip Griffin 

and we’re here today to talk about something that you may be experiencing. You may be feeling it yourself and we’re not therapists. So we’re not going to cure you of this. But we do have some ideas.

Gini Dietrich

Yes, it is zoom fatigue.

Chip Griffin  

And we’re all tired of a lot of things but we’re only going to talk about zoom fatigue today.

Gini Dietrich

Or I would I will loop all video chats into well

Chip Griffin

yes I mean, we have nothing’s going

Gini Dietrich

to go meet Yeah,

Chip Griffin

we have nothing against zoom in particular. I do love Microsoft, but I don’t like Microsoft Teams. So maybe I I will put them into a separate bucket. I just, every time I get invited to a Microsoft Teams call. I just,

Gini Dietrich

it’s Yeah, it never works ever. Never. It works. It’s just it’s not. It’s not as smooth. I’d rather

Chip Griffin

use Skype or something like that. And to my friends in Redmond, I am sorry. Because I do love my I’m doing that this whole production is being done on Microsoft Windows. I’ve switched from the Mac. So I’m a huge fan of you guys. I’m not a huge fan of the team’s meeting software.

Gini Dietrich

On that note,

Chip Griffin

so zoom fatigue, everybody’s talking about it, we have people saying, Oh, my God, zoom. And you’ve got people have come up with all of these quote unquote, solutions, like, zoom free Wednesdays, or, you know, no camera Tuesdays, or I, I don’t I can’t really wrap my mind around a genie.

Gini Dietrich

I think it’s less about the technology and more about we’re having meetings just to have meetings just to have meetings. Yeah. And I’m finding that people are like, Oh, we need to have a meeting about that. And you’re like, No, no, no, we don’t we can just, we can put that in slack or we can eat It or whatever the communication method is, we do not need to have a meeting.

Chip Griffin  

That Yeah, and I think that is really what this comes down to. It’s not zoom, it’s not video, and switch switching your meeting to audio isn’t going to solv...