Re:Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation
by ryguytilidie on Monday September 18, 2017 @01:39PM
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Totally agree with this.
I do consulting for a bunch of startups and they often invite me to their slack. I'm pretty fascinated by the hugely different "slack cultures" at each company.
One company I worked for would militantly tell people to never use @all, @channel, etc, because it was distracting (THANK YOU!!!!) and another client will literally do "@channel, I'm WFH today" in the all company channel. I've had 2-3 hour blocks where I'll have 6-7 notifications that aren't for me.
If you ask me, Slack is the best way to distract your employees from doing work. It's like putting everyone in ~1 hour of meetings a day for no good reason.
I do consulting for a bunch of startups and they often invite me to their slack. I'm pretty fascinated by the hugely different "slack cultures" at each company.
One company I worked for would militantly tell people to never use @all, @channel, etc, because it was distracting (THANK YOU!!!!) and another client will literally do "@channel, I'm WFH today" in the all company channel. I've had 2-3 hour blocks where I'll have 6-7 notifications that aren't for me.
If you ask me, Slack is the best way to distract your employees from doing work. It's like putting everyone in ~1 hour of meetings a day for no good reason.