The remote working place I'm at has a policy of starting with video calls, then voice if video isn't available, down to IM, then email. I'm not an extrovert at

The remote working place I'm at has a policy of starting with video calls, then voice if video isn't available, down to IM, then email. I'm not an extrovert at all, but I quite like it. We are a relatively small dev team - maybe 5/6 people within a company of 30 or so who we talk to less. It's generally faster to communicate like that, with the benefit that you get to know the people you work with a little. Just clicking on an individual's face and being able to talk to them without acceptance does feel like a step too far to me though. That said, some years ago now, a colleague and I were saying it might be useful to have a teamspeak-style voice room where anyone in the team could join/leave at will but it meant you could push-to-talk to the room if you wanted to. The idea being that people could share their frustrations easily so the team could help them out rather than have them feeling alone and unable to hit the dial button to ask for help from a specific individual. And you could always leave. We never got around to setting that up though.