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That's insane to me.
I don't want phone calls, and I certainly don't really care for emails, way over used.
As a person that got used to being online with IRC and Usenet, I gotta say Teams (as a pain in the ass as it is) is the best way to communicate (if that is the chat type tool you have).
You don't have to respond right away, you have the information collected in chat channels, you can bring in others into the chat.
But most importantly: it is the only one that makes sense with asynchronous remote work.
A phone call? I tell people I do not have a phone anymore, there is no number to call. Why would you want interruption?
The thing I hate about Teams is how it's constantly interrupting what I'm doing with notifications. I'm trying to concentrate on some problem or debug some issue then bling-bling...bling....bling-bling...bling and I've lost that concentration.
Though part of it is just how people seem to use Teams at my job. A bunch of @all group chats (the whole channels area is barely touched) and a couple of people having a conversation in one of the chats blissfully unaware they are annoying 30 other people who don't care about whatever they are talking about. Can't just leave the chat as managers and leads seem to think these chats are great way (and the only way) to disseminate important information. Though I may put the chat on mute...then forget I did that for a while...
I'd vastly prefer if people used email instead, unless it's actually truly urgent enough to interrupt everyone's work with it.
Only one? What about Slack?
Even WhatsApp does all that you said, and has a webpage view.
I said if its the tool you happen to have, its right there in the sentence. I would be just as happy to do all of this with IRC.
Are you seriously recommending WhatsApp? I wouldn't use that personally, and I got to say I wouldn't even use it if you paid me.
I dont like calls either. I have to send back documents, email is 99% of the comms i use. Teams worked in a previous role that was constant group work on a single thing.
You guys still passing around documents? I try and put a stop to that as soon as I see it.
You losers are still using words to convey information?
I buy and sell things, so yes. Constantly.
Look, that's great, but I just want to warn you that you just said the words "Teams is the best way to communicate".
Are you okay, mate?