Speaking Out of Turn: How Video Conferencing Reduces Vocal Synchrony and Collective Intelligence

Two new concepts to learn:

‘Vocal Synchrony’ - how people in groups synchronise their speech to facilitate collaboration, which results in greater ‘Collective Intelligence’ as ideas are exchange fluidly between synchronised group members.

It’s basically saying remote work is bad for both of these things, which is probably true. Bit technical but well worth a read.

PS: my solution to all this is to atomise work and reduce the requirement to collaborate. Because lets face it, we won’t leave remote