Retirement Starts Today Radio

If you’ve been working from home over the past year you may wonder why you feel even more exhausted than normal. This could be due to Zoom Fatigue. In this episode, we’ll explore an article from CNBC that references a Stanford study about this phenomenon. In the listener questions segment, I’ll answer questions about RMDs and Roth conversions. Let’s get to the bottom of your exhaustion--press play now.  Outline of This Episode [1:22] Zoom fatigue affects people on a psychological level [3:26] Solutions for Zoom fatigue [6:17] Future tax rates and RMDs [10:44] How to pay for Roth conversions? Why are we so exhausted after video conferencing? Over the past year, many of us have been using Zoom and other video conferencing applications to replace in-person meetings. The constant video conferencing has led to increased fatigue at the end of the day and a researcher with Stanford University wondered why. Jeremy Bailenson researched this issue and recently published a paper about how video conferencing affects pe