Disease

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Computer science

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak

Applied psychology

Internal medicine

Medicine

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Outbreak

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Psychology

Virology

Videoconferencing

Multimedia

Journal of Applied Psychology

In response to the COVID-19 global health pandemic, many employees transitioned to remote work, which included remote meetings.With this sudden shift, workers and the media began discussing videoconference fatigue, a potentially new phenomenon of feeling tired and exhausted attributed to a videoconference.In the present study, we examine the nature of videoconference fatigue, when this phenomenon occurs, and what videoconference characteristics are associated with fatigue using a mixed methods approach.Thematic analysis of qualitative responses indicates that videoconference fatigue exists, often in near temporal proximity to the videoconference, and is affected by various videoconference characteristics.Quantitative data was collected each hour during five workdays from 55 employees who were working remotely because of the COVID-19 pandemic.Latent growth modeling results suggest that videoconferences at different times of the day are related to deviations in employee fatigue beyond what is expected based on ...

Videoconference fatigue? Exploring changes in fatigue after videoconference meetings during COVID-19.