Call it the Goldilocks theory of the pandemic workplace.

Nonstop Zooms and video meetings are too taxing. Emails and Slack hold companies together, but written text can never capture the nuance of human conversation. What’s the answer? The humble phone call.

“A phone call is in many ways the happy medium,” says Marissa Shuffler, associate…

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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