How well do you need to know spoken English to work for a remote company?

Question

Distant work

It is clear that I must be able to say something. But I would like to read about your experience. Maybe at the interview they checked the speech, but in fact all business communication was reduced to correspondence with colleagues. In general, how was / are you?

PS

I'm not asking this in order to "slip through" social security or something like that, it's just one thing to use speech as needed, another if you had to discuss literally every issue / new task with the help of phone calls. I'm sure there are a lot of people who just have such a transitional level, when you can already talk without preparation, fluently, but not for very long. I rather see it as an opportunity to tighten up the speech.

Answer 1

It is spoken English that is not needed so often, now most of the communication is in instant messengers, plus in real life in English speech they are very loyal to mistakes, the main thing is to understand each other.
From personal experience - it's hard to communicate with the British and very difficult to communicate with the Indians, the Europeans usually speak very clearly. With the Indians, by the way, for three different attempts to communicate, I could not talk, we have completely different English)