ZOOM ZOMBIES

The newest pandemic problem to worry about: Zoom Zombies. According to the Root Insurance Distracted Driving Awareness Survey, released this week, 54% of motorists who have driven their vehicles soon after a Zoom videoconferencing meeting report having trouble concentrating on the road. Stefan van der Stigchel, a professor of experimental psychology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands explains that videoconferencing saps more brain power than in-person meetings because you have to pay more attention, and if you’re at home you have to block out all the personal belongings surrounding you, interruptions from the family, household chores, and the like. After the videoconferencing call, it’s harder to regain your focus, especially behind the wheel, leading to distracted driving. The solution: Do something after the video call that doesn’t require concentration – do laundry or take a walk. Let your brain recharge. Do something you don’t have to think about very much.
* Do laundry or take a walk. That’s a tough one.
* Videoconferencing saps more brain power ’cause you keep checking everyone out to see who looks more or less burnt out than you.
* When I don’t want to think about very much, I go in for a meeting with the boss.
* How are they not calling these Zoombies?
* It must be like when you go see a movie in the middle of the day and you walk out of the theater into broad daylight, and your whole sense of time is thrown off. Like THAT’S ever gonna happen again.