I don't have to drop (as much of) my mental state in order to communicate via chat. It's asynchronous, so I can finish typing out whatever I'm thinking about, o

I don't have to drop (as much of) my mental state in order to communicate via chat. It's asynchronous, so I can finish typing out whatever I'm thinking about, or looking for whatever I'm trying to find, kick off a build, etc., and then turn my attention to the chat window and bang out whatever comes next in the conversation. Once written, I can switch right back to whatever I was doing - I type quickly, so it's usually only a few seconds of interruption. I can easily carry on a couple of extended chat conversations while simultaneously continuing to get my actual work done. If someone wants to talk in person or via voice instead, my heart always sinks a little, because it means I have to drop whatever I was doing and give the conversation my full attention instead. Once we're done, I have to try to remember what I was thinking about before the distraction happened, get myself back up to speed... This doesn't come up so frequently anymore, but it was very noticeable when I used to work remote. Some coworkers were happy with chat, and it was easy to communicate with them; with others, it'd be like twenty seconds of productive conversation, then "can we please just have a call about this" and, oh god, that's it for getting anything done for the next 40 minutes.