"You will do this" no agency, no control, no considerations, skips calling out authority and goes direct
"Will you do this?" Direct, has agency but potentially confrontational if you say no
"I need you to do this" indicates their authority, direct, no control, could be inconsiderate to some as they overriding your priorities for their own
It can to be softened up with a question but if they really need you to do it I feel like your response also softens it up.
I think adding a acknowledgement of inconvenience, reason, urgency or explanation to it also helps.
"Hey Jim, I know you are working on X and this will be inconvenient for you but I need you to tackle Y" ideally a reason or compliment would be good too.
"I need you to do this because you have the most expertise on this and feel no one can do it well but you"
"I need you to do this right now. We are losing hundreds of thousands of dollars with the web server down" I feel this is an acceptable reason to demand to interrupt someone to take care of something that has a major impact on everyone
And for the life saving measures saying "I need you to evacuate this building immediately" is completely acceptable to me with no reason needed. Being butt hurt over a demand versus a kind request is better than dying.
I once got fired for not doing something the way the boss wanted, because at my previous job we did it the opposite way. He had explained that he wanted me to do it, but didn't say why, so I didn't remember. I too find that when I ask someone to do something, they're much more likely to do it right if I explain why, not just how. (Getting the method wrong is different from ignoring the request, but they both spring from the same underlying phenomenon -- we are likely to discard information if we don't know why to heed it.)
Context matters a whole lot, some of which doesn't even have to be verbal, but I've found that adding the why goes a long ways in getting people on board because no one wants to dive head first blindly into a demand or request without knowing the reason or desired outcome.
“You will be joining the oncall rotation” -> Quite friendly
The second one reads as a news report: like I, the reader of the oncall rotation, am sharing the news that your name has come up. (If I was the sole controller of the oncall rotation it might come across a bit differently, as an actual command).
I like the contrast of these two!
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The first statement permits the response 'no'. It is clearly an order, with room for agency on the other side.
The second statement doesn't permit a response. To disagree you have to say 'you are wrong'. The statement leaves no room for free will. It assumes the authority of the command to be overwhelming. Or perhaps it is a threat.
I don't mind direct commands from a boss. But a boss that tells me what I will do, might likely find himself wrong.