How to stay awake during late afternoon video meetings
The post-3 PM circadian dip causes extreme fatigue during late afternoon video calls, even for people who are fully rested. This exhaustion makes it a constant struggle to stay alert and leaves people wishing they could turn off the camera and just work alone.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1getting 9+ hours of sleep
- 2doodling shapes and patterns in the margins of nearby paper
- 3standing up and pacing around the room with headphones on
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“my brain is absolutely cooked after like 3pm, no matter how rested i am.”source ↗
delayed_boldness · r/Accounting · 3 upvotes
“When it hits 4 I start to really chug and wish I was just working alone”source ↗
KeysOfMysterium · r/Accounting · 1 upvotes
“I will doze off and have to literally FIGHT for my life to stay awake.”source ↗
KeysOfMysterium · r/Accounting
Where this came up
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