Four years later, Westbrook and Robertson might be due for another face-to-face chat.

Although email, Slack, and other services have allowed workers to keep in touch, there seems to be simply no substitute for dropping into a co-worker’s cubicle for a few minutes and having a face-to-face chat.

They were also instructed to keep their home webcams and microphones on and at the ready, so a spontaneous face-to-face chat was always only a click away.

He said this wasn’t his first face-to-face chat with an American lawmaker in the last 20 years.

Which made it all the more bizarre when South Korean officials told Donald Trumpov that North Korea’s Kim Jong-un wanted a face-to-face chat, and the American president quickly accepted without any planning or forethought.