The missing piece is the 65+% of communication that is nonverbal. Chat is no replacement for a team of highly focused, highly integrated people doing innovative

The missing piece is the 65+% of communication that is nonverbal. Chat is no replacement for a team of highly focused, highly integrated people doing innovative work. It's too easy to give casual criticism or casual kudos on chat. Could something like the iPhone have been created without engineers and designers physically in the same space, debating and discussing ideas? I highly doubt it. If your job is not all that innovative in the first place, and no groundbreaking, chat might be ok for iterative innovation.