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In my experience the only thing helping people work better as a team is just working better as a team.

Be patient, kind, and spend an extra minute writing a more detailed email that is helpful to your colleagues. If you're a manager, give them the right tools and empower them.

But this is completely orthogonal to whether the work is in an office or remote.

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Part of the in-person experience is the opportunity for people to correct mistakes in communication. Many people are not effective writers, and so pushing for async or writing-heavy communication is difficult at best. Having one-on-ones by voice or video often helps cut down misunderstandings, and in-person is a way to help reduce the barrier to entry for such interactions.

This is just an example of extraverts forcing their way of doing things on others.

If people are bad at writing, they can get better at it, like any other skill. I have a bad memory for voice/video conversations, so my preference is to always have a written email to go back to for reference.

But I'll still attempt to do what my other team members are comfortable with.

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