The joy of synchronous communication is that it is also asynchronous. If you didn’t get my Teams message at the time - you will after!

Email offers no benefits I can see compared to instant messaging. Plus, you can always turn off notifications. I also don’t need to make filters to drown out the massive amount of sheer noise and unrelated garbage.

When someone sends me a direct message on Teams, I know that’s a real person, asking for me directly.

I have never had a Teams notification, at my current workplace of 3+ years - sent to me by a robot. Imagine that!

In contrast - least 90% of the email sent to ‘me’ from within my company is not from a real person. I’d say 98% of email - not exaggerating whatsoever - is completely unrelated to me, or effectively ‘corporate spam’.

What benefit does email provide above a service like Teams, and how does it curtail all of the above issues?

By requesting people use email exclusively to reach you; you’re choosing to inconvenience me, and many others - because you’ve refused to move on to the next logical step in communicating with your coworkers. You’re forcing me to use a service to communicate with others that is ineffective at best - frustrating at hell at worst.

It appears entitled, and; frankly, you’re the type of person I’d hate working with because of it.

An email sent to me is a fish in a bucket of mostly fake fish.

An IM sent to me is a direct message, sent by a human; specially to me - and if I don’t see it when it’s sent to me - I can still see it later.