[tluyben2]

We work with people from all over the world, most not native speaking. For technical stuff, in our experience, voice or video calls are the most inefficient thing possible. Because spoken bad English is far worse than written, a lot of people have less than optimal internet bandwidth and latency and, worst, after the call the details are kind of lost. So first writing the main points in chat, if then some people (usually this is 1 person) want a call, we do a call and then flesh the details out over chat and in docs/wiki.

Informal comms is also via chat; far more so then in video as, because of the overchatter and bad connections, jokes and quips get lost far easier.

Ymmv of course but we avoid vid/voice like the plague, so far it hurt us with large amounts of miscommunication and time loss.

By the way, been doing this and like this for 25 years now.

[nottorp]

> By the way, been doing this and like this for 25 years now.

Yeah, he must be new to distributed work :)