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We drew the line a bit fast on the phone call

2020-10-05T14:42:12.171Z


“SCREENSHOTS” LETTER N ° 24 - Video conferencing fatigue pushes us to rediscover a technology that we thought was outdated: audio calling.


Dear subscribers,

When was your last phone call?

Mine dates from Thursday afternoon, when a

Figaro

project manager

called me to close a discussion we had in writing on Slack professional messaging.

I never would have thought of calling him.

She did well.

Our subject was settled in eight minutes, without ambiguity or waste of time.

I survived.

That same day, I came across this tweet from an American investor, retweeted in my news feed: “

Zoom fatigue is real.

Phone calls are underestimated.

"

"Phone calls are underestimated."

Twitter screenshot

Zoom fatigue is a symptom that

Le Figaro

has told you about several times since March.

With the rise of teleworking, companies have migrated their meetings remotely, by videoconference.

These tools are exhausting.

They limit non-verbal communications, constrain movement, require you to always stare at your computer.

One solution, very widespread, to regain a little freedom, is to switch off your camera and leave only the audio on.

Video conferencing without the image.

Without knowing it, we got back to making phone calls.

I belong to a generation that

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Source: lefigaro

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