{"id":10053,"date":"2021-08-30T05:55:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T10:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=10053"},"modified":"2021-08-08T11:25:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T16:25:57","slug":"why-you-should-resist-the-urge-to-multitask-during-zoom-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/why-you-should-resist-the-urge-to-multitask-during-zoom-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should resist the urge to multitask during Zoom meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you fallen victim to back to back online meetings in your company?\u00a0 Often we don&#8217;t have enough time to get our regular work done due to an overabundance of meetings, so the temptation is to multi-task or peek at our emails, fearing that we&#8217;ll miss something.\u00a0 The advice here is to avoid this wherever possible and to be present at your meetings, for everyone&#8217;s sake.\u00a0 However, scheduling a 5 or 10 minute buffer <em>between<\/em> meetings can allow enough time to answer that urgent email or stretch and quickly run to the bathroom before starting the next meeting.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the little things that can either help or hinder our work day!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/90592359\/why-you-should-resist-the-urge-to-multitask-during-zoom-meetings\">Why you should resist the urge to multitask during Zoom meetings<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all heard that multitasking is bad and switching between activities makes it harder to complete them. But let&#8217;s be honest-many of us multitask during Zoom meetings, especially as we enter the 10th month of working remotely and our Zoom fatigue has worsened.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you fallen victim to back to back online meetings in your company?\u00a0 Often we don&#8217;t have enough time to get our regular work done due to an overabundance of meetings, so the temptation is to multi-task or peek at our emails, fearing that we&#8217;ll miss something.\u00a0 The advice here is to avoid this wherever possible and to be present at your meetings, for everyone&#8217;s sake.\u00a0 However, scheduling a 5 or 10 minute buffer between meetings can allow enough time to answer that urgent email or stretch and quickly run to the bathroom before starting the next meeting.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the little things that can either help or hinder our work day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.fastcompany.net\/image\/upload\/w_1153,ar_16:9,c_fill,g_auto,f_auto,q_auto,fl_lossy\/wp-cms\/uploads\/2021\/01\/p-1-why-you-should-resist-the-urge-to-multitask-during-zoom-meetings.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Why you should resist the urge to multitask during Zoom meetings","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[222,145,42,97,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-10053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-wellness","9":"tag-organizational_skills","10":"tag-productivity","11":"tag-wellbeing","12":"tag-workplace","13":"tag-workplace_tips"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10057,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10053\/revisions\/10057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}