No, we won’t have a video call for that
This is so weird for me.<p>Where I work (backend software development), we do video calls and meetings <i>all the time</i>. Probably an hour every day or more is spent in direct contact. I see this as absolutely essential to get people on the same page - but <i>none</i> of the reasons that people have listed in this thread for why people prefer personal meetings apply to me. For instance, I am extremely grateful if someone writes up meeting notes, I read text documents all the time, and I often require continuous uninterrupted time and respect it in others, and I <i>still</i> prefer voiced meetings.<p>I think the primary reason is if I am trying to clarify an idea for a design or an approach, I will go to the people who have also touched that field of difficulty, and try to explain what I am trying to do to them in advance. The spoken medium in that case gives room for interruptions, immediate elaborations and feedback. A write-up either convinces or it doesn&#x27;t; it can be edited but it has feedback cycles on the order of tens of minutes to hours. Spoken communication has feedback cycles of seconds, so even if I was going to write something up, I&#x27;d talk it through verbally first, anyways.