The one thing I dislike quite a bit about the whole "working from home" thing is how video calls have become the go-to means for people to, in their eyes, solve a problem quickly.
"Can we call?" No we cannot, because I have crippling anxiety in one-on-one social situations at the best of times, magnified a thousandfold if it's an audio or video chat.
I don't really get why people think it's a quicker, more efficient means of communicating, though I suspect that may just be years of my own habits talking. I am, after all, someone who has always felt more comfortable communicating via the written word, be it in a real-time chat or via email, and thus my perspective may be skewed. But in all seriousness, I do struggle to think of a time when a video call has been more efficient than a quick text message.
I guess it's down to different ways of communicating. Some people prefer to literally speak their minds, while others (like me) prefer to take their time over a written response. Ideally everyone would be able to find some sort of sensible middle ground, but with two such "extremes" in play it feels like it can be tricky to do so sometimes.
So yeah. You want my attention? Send me a message. I'm not jumping on a video or voice call unless I absolutely positively have to!
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