“When you're on a video conference, you know everybody's looking at you you are on stage, so there comes the social pressure and feeling like you need to perform.

BBC also interviewed workplace and wellbeing expert, Marissa Shuffler, on the pressures of being on camera.

Staring at yourself into a camera while knowing several other people staring at you tends to add more pressure on focusing on your appearance rather than the meeting. We very quickly found out that you can’t getaway with the at home quarantine look and we have to get ready at least from the waist up. Working from home gives us the green light to not wear makeup, throw our hair up in a messy bun and stay in our pajamas all day. Since it’s a virtual meeting you don’t have to get ready, right? Turns out you actually do- at least for women. Experiencing technical errors and not knowing how to fix it can distract us even more from the agenda at hand while adding another layer of stress. If you are overworking your laptop or computer it may be time for an upgrade or an external hard drive. Many are also experiencing lags on their own devices as this might be the first time working this much from a personal device. Zoom even has a status page on their site to keep people updated on outages and errors occurring. In the beginning of quarantine, Zoom and many other conferencing platforms were actually crashing several times a day. An initially scheduled 30 minute Zoom meeting can turn into an hour + meeting because of things such as poor wifi, frozen screens and software crashes.

What is zoom fatigue