> my tech lead and I could have in-person 1-on-1s Do you think it matters that they were in-person? The fact that you called them 1-on-1s implies dedicated chu

> my tech lead and I could have in-person 1-on-1s Do you think it matters that they were in-person? The fact that you called them 1-on-1s implies dedicated chunks of time for direct communication. Would they not have worked just as well over VoIP? Did you have to schedule time for 1-on-1s in the office, or was it more spontaneous? FWIW, I'm visually impaired, and I spent most of my career so far on a distributed team where the same was true of my boss and most of my coworkers. So maybe there's some aspect of in-person communication that we're just used to doing without. Edit: Then again, remote work _is_ on the rise in the wider software industry.