Did you mean: text allows you to take your time and revise what you're going to say before saying it, and makes it impossible for aggressive team-members to "cut off" less confident team-members?
> lacks all the non-verbal cues
Did you mean: text is accessible to people on the autistic spectrum, people with social anxiety, people with verbal tics, and anyone else who avoids jobs entirely on the basis that they'll have to talk to people, or who might be disadvantaged by others' prejudices based on their "non-verbal cues"?
Also, to specifically highlight:
> in person
We're presumably talking about a remote-only workplace here. There is no such thing as an "in-person" meeting—or, indeed, a synchronous meeting—if your team is spread across the complete gamut of time zones.
When I worked at IBM, we were switching from IM and live video-conference meetings, to entirely Slack-based communication. It was for exactly the reasons I stated above.
The most important of all those reasons, though, in IBM's case, was that it was:
> a text log
...because now you can employ deaf people! (Or people with sensory or executive impairments that get in the way of parsing speech in realtime.)
Did you mean: text allows you to take your time and revise what you're going to say before saying it, and makes it impossible for aggressive team-members to "cut off" less confident team-members?
> lacks all the non-verbal cues
Did you mean: text is accessible to people on the autistic spectrum, people with social anxiety, people with verbal tics, and anyone else who avoids jobs entirely on the basis that they'll have to talk to people, or who might be disadvantaged by others' prejudices based on their "non-verbal cues"?
Also, to specifically highlight:
> in person
We're presumably talking about a remote-only workplace here. There is no such thing as an "in-person" meeting—or, indeed, a synchronous meeting—if your team is spread across the complete gamut of time zones.
When I worked at IBM, we were switching from IM and live video-conference meetings, to entirely Slack-based communication. It was for exactly the reasons I stated above.
The most important of all those reasons, though, in IBM's case, was that it was:
> a text log
...because now you can employ deaf people! (Or people with sensory or executive impairments that get in the way of parsing speech in realtime.)