[Jemaclus]

Totally agree about the phone thing. At my last job, I set up a meeting with HR and explained the situation, and within 24 hours, the entire 2000+ company had a new rule about email vs phone calls. There were still a lot of calls, but none of them came to me. I'm not entirely sure how they pulled that off, because the rule didn't mention me by name, but it worked out great.

I would 100000x rather text, Slack, or meet 1:1 than do a phone call.

That said, in the last year or so I got a hearing aid with Bluetooth capabilities, so I can shut off the external microphone and only hear the phone call that comes through. It only works on my personal phone, but I actually enjoy talking on the phone with my family and friends now, whereas I used to avoid it like the plague.