You bring up good points against solely using email for communication, especially when subjects are multi-faceted. But I don't think anyone is proposing work-fr

You bring up good points against solely using email for communication, especially when subjects are multi-faceted. But I don't think anyone is proposing work-from-home means work-from-email. Protip if this happens: "You make a lot of good points, and there are some things we should definitely unpack here. Can we dig into this a little over [discourse|slack|phone|video]? We can reply back here later with [action items|a summary of our conversation|specific work items|some actual work] to make sure everyone else on the thread is still included." Besides: > Person B uses body language and makes subtle modifications to their response... This approach is very hit or miss in real life, at least in my experience. Not everyone is wired to respect nonverbal cues as much as we would wish. Instead, I often request a sidebar when in person conversations become derailed. All that being said, I agree that written communication is challenging for many people, if not most. That is not to say it can't get better if written communication became more important or popular.