Here’s a simple one to make your 10 hours a day on Zoom more enjoyable.
Hide Self View
Click on the three little dots next to Mute in your video window. Choose “Hide Self View.”
The following view …
is much better to look at that the one with my own picture in it.
Staring at yourself for 10 hours a day is exhausting. If you are having trouble relating to this, put a mirror on your desk in front of you and look at it all day. That’s basically what you are doing when you don’t hide self view.
For some crazy reason, Zoom hasn’t made this a default feature yet (Dear Zoom, make it a default to Hide Self View).
I started doing this about a month ago. It has blown my mind how less tiring the day of endless Zoom is and how easier it is to concentrate when I’m not constantly looking at my face on the screen.