These are mostly bad organizational issues (and in some cases personal problems: learn to turn off notifications on your phone!!), not issues with chat; the maj

These are mostly bad organizational issues (and in some cases personal problems: learn to turn off notifications on your phone!!), not issues with chat; the majority of them would also apply to a typical office environment, with people wandering around talking about things they are doing, the visuals of seeing people grouping together to talk about things... only with chat you can trivially remove yourself from the noise and return to it later without missing anything, you have a complete searchable log of everything that was said in order, and you have a potentially infinite number of rooms in which to have separated meetings. Chat doesn't replace your self control and management issues: it replaces your office and provides a better set of tools for collaboration than a bunch of monkeys co-locating in a building making grunting noises that immediately fade into the ether could imagine.