[ahnberg]

Flawed logic. The idea with asynchronous communication such as e-mail, chat and such is that you CAN be slow in replying, if you chose to. Establish that culture, and this is not a problem.

Most of these articles against chat or digital communication base their criticism on the fact that people can't focus, can't plan, can't decide what to do. With that assumption or decision nothing will work.

Figure out how to focus instead, figure out how much chunk of time you as an individual need to perform a task and make progress. Then check e-mail, Slack, phone etc in between ... and it will be just fine. fud!