We do this but with a perpetual Zoom meeting. It works for us. But i think my team is strange. We build software to do some vital business task, which is used b

We do this but with a perpetual Zoom meeting. It works for us. But i think my team is strange. We build software to do some vital business task, which is used by people actually responsible for that task. There are four developers and two users. All six of us are on the chat. 95% of the time, the chat is silence, as everyone is doing their job. 4% of the time, it's the users talking to each other to coordinate something they're doing; i can mostly tune this out because it doesn't directly involve me, but it's good for the developers to maintain some vague awareness of it, because it might be something we can help with, or suggest a way to improve the software. The other 1% of the time, it's developers talking about something urgent, that's worth interrupting me for. We also have regular meetings, separate to the chat, where we have deep conversations. And we have a couple of Slack channels (one for the four developers, and one for all six of us), which we use for conversations which aren't worth taking to chat. A key fact, i think, is that the channel is mostly silent. If it was full of developers getting into deep technical conversations all day, it would be a productivity destroyer.