[sologoub]

I’ve experienced the opposite - as others have noted, making communication just a bit more structured and accessible to others in our org helped get clearer on what/how/why AND incorporate voices often left out because they are not the loudest in the room (or don’t want to speak up in a large public setting). Just on the merits of inclusion, video conferencing has been a big win for me.

Yes, there are adjustments and downsides, but net net, I feel a lot more confident that my team are being heard and no one is overlooked because of social tendencies, etc.

[Salgat]

Agreed. It's very much dependent on managers shaping corporate culture to foster effective communication habits, but once established, it very much helps productivity. I work with several teams in any given week and I find myself most productive when we use a private channel for dedicated discussion (which I can scan through later very quickly as a form of documentation), while the few meetings I have are dragged out, ineffective, and extremely inefficient since they bottleneck communication to a single speaker at any given time, preventing parallel discussion in separate threads. Also in a meeting I can't just turn off my ears and look up something to check and if needed ask questions, I have to keep my attention on the speaker, which harms feedback and discussion even more.