I wrote Emergency Remote[0] for companies thrown into remote due to the situation. From my experience, it seems that the reason companies use sync communicatio

I wrote Emergency Remote[0] for companies thrown into remote due to the situation. From my experience, it seems that the reason companies use sync communication and "emulating" an office is not because they don't understand the benefits of async, but because of the required discipline. Fortunately, that discipline is required vastly more of the initiator of the conversation. This allows the recipient to quite easily refuse sync communication. This way employees can help each other out and get used to async. [0]: https://www.emergencyremote.com/EmergencyRemote.pdf https://www.emergencyremote.com/EmergencyRemote.pdf