Communication without face-to-face time is still difficult in many ways. A couple of years ago I worked remotely as a software developer. The boss would only

Communication without face-to-face time is still difficult in many ways. A couple of years ago I worked remotely as a software developer. The boss would only give me tasks through email/JIRA and we would have standup meetings daily. Almost every time I was assigned a task, I would be given an extremely vague description. Now normally, this is what we need to deal with as developers, but I could barely get an idea of what we were trying to accomplish with the task. I usually just finished the task with what little information I had and it would have to be re-rewritten almost every time because the boss wanted something different. This was all through email. Some people just don't know how to effectively communicate in writing. They let me go after about a year because they could hire '4 people in India for the cost of my salary'. I had to chuckle.