This is an All-Ears English Podcast episode 1599, how to change it up when it comes to online work meetings.

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Do you have Zoom fatigue? How could you suggest that you change the meeting format at your workplace?

Today, get some ideas on ways to suggest new formats to meet with your colleagues in English.

Hey Lindsay, how are you? Doing great, Michelle. How's it going? What's happening in New York?

Not too much, not too much. Lindsay, are you tired of zooming people? Have you cut back on the

zooms? Are you still zooming a lot? I've always been zooming. Actually, I started really using Zoom

around the pandemic before that it was Skype, but it's all the same. Some kind of video chat,

Google Hangouts, whatever it is. Not too much myself. What about you, Michelle? Are you having

Zoom fatigue? Zoom fatigue. That is a huge buzzword now. Have you heard people say Zoom fatigue?

Zoom fatigue, for sure, because people are on their all-day long with their colleagues. We don't

really do Zoom all day long. We do it maybe a few times a week. We're lucky, I think.

Right. I think people are having Zoom fatigue in business and even just in their personal lives.

I remember with the pandemic, it would just be like, you want to zoom. At first, there was a novelty

to it, and then eventually it got fatigued by it. I was just like, okay, yeah, I don't know. I

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