| One of the consequences of pandemic-induced remote work has been the removal of visual body language from group phone calls. When there are 10-15 people on a call, it's hard for the leader to keep track of individual people, so there's a lot of communications checks like "Is my mic working?", "Does that make sense?", etc. One of the weirder examples from my experience was when this one coworker would say something like "I'll move onto the next section unless there are any objections" and after hearing nothing for a few seconds, would say "I'll take your silence as consent." Thankfully we've moved on in recent weeks to the much less rape-y, "I'll take your silence as concurrence." #business |