By now, we’re all familiar with the value of written communication in a remote work environment. Here is another way of understanding why - writing makes cultural information
explicit when we can no longer rely on implicit transmission that takes place in person. It’s also perhaps the reason why training and personal development is much more difficult in remote only - we don’t have the implicit methods of knowledge acquisition, such as emulation. Atli Thorkelsson talks about this in Recruiting Future podcast (hear it below), worth listening to that, as well as giving this rather academic piece from the Royal Society a a review (
see the discussion at the end if you don’t want to crunch through the dense copy).