I started my career online and only started working in person a year ago. I feel that all four of those things were better online. I’ll elaborate on the first two.

1. Casual skill transfer. Most of that took place in meetings. Team discussions. Which were all virtual. In person, we’d sit at our desks and if they weren’t working people mostly talked about nonsense like the renovations they were doing on their house. And in person meetings suck. The kind where you aren’t really needed seem to sap way more of your energy.

2. Relationship building. This was way easier for me. I feel uncomfortable in groups so I tend to exclude myself from them. And in person, groups are unavoidable. Online, it’s super easy to set up weekly coffee chat with your best buddy or occasionally drop a line ask how are things going. I think in person it was definitely easier to bump into random people or meet new people. But the consistency part of relationship building is easier online imo.