Written communication is remote work super power

Re:Written communication is remote work super power by asjw on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:02PM (#23578345)

How can you trust someone's spoken words if they can't write?

And what's the problem in your opinion with written iterations?

I usually attend meetings, hours a day, when I have to repeat the same concepts over and over, multiple times, to the same people, because they just forget what we established hours before.

There are people at my job setting up meetings just to "recap", which is a poor excuse for "we didn't take notes and/or we weren't listening and just said yes"

At least emails are searchable...

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Re:Written communication is remote work super power by tluyben2 on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:13PM (#23578443)

It is my problem with meetings & calls; I have no issue with effective meetings, however, a lot of people I work with (but ofcourse not all), treat meetings and voice calls just as a reminder/recap. They basically do not remember most of anything and don’t read/write anything either. So the people who take notes, read the minutes and read the docs have to sit through hours or rehash per week.

I cannot imagine how much time/money is lost by this in the world.

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Re:Written communication is remote work super power by cutemonster on Sunday June 21, 2020 @07:34PM (#23596195)

I wonder what type of organization / company is that? Eg fortune 500 or a government agency or a small tech startup?

(What do you think about their recruitment process?)

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