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Re:Our company’s remote work system failed by nottorp on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @07:23AM (#13651486)
However, those times are rare and 98% of a remote team's communication needs are best done in text only asynchronous mode.

Incidentally, this is a good way for people to actually take phone/voice calls seriously - when they're rare, it really means it's important.

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Re:Our company’s remote work system failed by nl on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:58AM (#13652399)
However, those times are rare and 98% of a remote team's communication needs are best done in text only asynchronous mode.

I'm unconvinced.

I'm far from an advocate for pair-programming, but nevertheless I have seen how well it can work. It seems to me that that "shared brain" deep and rapid communication is extremely synchronous.

I wouldn't argue that it is required 98% of the time, but I also think that it being unnecessary 98% of the time is a exaggeration (if we measure based on the team's overall output somehow. Measuring it is of course impossible, but as a though experiment..)

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Re:Our company’s remote work system failed by benji-york on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @09:25AM (#13652170)
Indeed. I've worked 100% remotely for the last several years and the few times I've made or received a phone call they felt like something significant. Heck, just getting a text message from my manager made me pay special attention.
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