Over the past year, our lives have seen extensive changes that have led to many of us feeling a sense of exhaustion and burnout. The luckier among us have been able to remove ourselves from harm’s way and work from home during the pandemic. But even the fortunate ones are left to spend our days looking at a screen, with a great deal of our communication taking place via video calls. This has led to what has been termed “Zoom fatigue,” where our brains are exhausted from overstimulation. Aside from the eye strain of looking at a screen all day (if we are not looking at a computer, we’re often looking at our TV or our phone), our sense of space is disrupted by video meetings. Suddenly, everyone is much closer than they would be in a pre-pandemic meeting. In the 1960s, anthropologist Edward Hall described how our relationships operate within socially accepted …