Do your eyeballs hurt?! No matter my joy and awe at humanity’s creativity
in times of crisis in terms of moving everything online—everything. is.
online. Even pre-pandemic, our phones were already spitting out weekly
Screen Time reports to help us put down the devices . . . now we’re glued
to them as the only outlet for social connection, culture, and
productivity.

In a New York Times article, When a Home Becomes Headquarters—also titled
“Logged on from the Laundry Room” (LOL)—even the CEO of Cisco, the company
that runs meeting software WebEx, Chuck Robbins acknowledged the
difficulties. He said, “I tell you…this whole teleworking thing — as much
as we sell it to our customers, I’m not sure I want to do it 100 percent of
the time. Nobody prepares for this,” he said.

At the same time, people want to connect! We are hungry for it, going stir
crazy, and missing our cultural outings. I wholeheartedly agree with Sundar
Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, who said “It’s a miracle you can run a company
this way."

So today I’m sharing 16 strategies for staying sane amidst the endless
screens—particularly for work-related meetings—across three categories: for
meeting leaders, participants, and during the meeting best practices.

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