The Video Call Fatigue Tracker extension for Google Chrome will monitor your total scheduled video call durations and get notified if you’re likely to get video call fatigue.

For people who spend a lot of time in meetings, meetings with a video link included, it’s crucial to track how many hours you spend in meetings and how much time you need to recover your energy to meet with your team again.

“Zoom Fatigue” is the term used to describe a phenomenon experienced by those who spend a lot of time in meetings. It is characterized by a temporary state of exhaustion, especially after meeting with colleagues for a long period of time in a single meeting or a series of meetings. The result is feeling tired and drained. It’s most often a combination of meeting with one’s colleagues and sharing of the same information and knowledge with the same people in the same room. It can be caused by not being engaged in your work and not doing anything but just sitting in front of a computer screen.

We all need to take a break every now and then, even when we don’t want to, and it is possible to stay engaged with our work and still feel that need to disconnect for a while.