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Gauging burnout, isolation, and other hybrid team woes
From the course: Making Hybrid Teams Work
Gauging burnout, isolation, and other hybrid team woes
- We are not biologically designed to work exclusively through a computer screen. And yet this is the environment that most hybrid teams function in. Audio lag, freezing videos, dropping connections, they all make for a totally disconnected experience that over time wears on us. And then add the fact that on video conferencing platforms, we're constantly watching ourselves interact with other people. In a normal social setting, we'd be able to make eye contact with our meeting guests and look away and observe other elements of our surroundings. But in the virtual world, we feel like we are not really allowed to direct our attention away from the screen. Video conferencing is a type of extended performance that feels like it has no end. There isn't anything that breaks up one experience to the next. So we need to take care of one another and be on the lookout for signs that this way of working maybe weighing our…
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