What happens with communication "in person" is that people talk at the same time. This doesn't fly in remote meetings, so they kind of enforce good meeting hygi

What happens with communication "in person" is that people talk at the same time. This doesn't fly in remote meetings, so they kind of enforce good meeting hygiene in this regard. Not enough to make meetings great overall but it helps. Management in many corporations want the employees to feel like they are friends, which they typically are not (do you regularly visit co-workers in their homes? no? then you probably aren't actually friends). It's one of many strategies to foster unfounded loyalty to the employer and enabling of corporate hierarchies.