Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever

Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by dkdk8283 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:37AM (#23167940)

It’s selfish on behalf of the distractor.

When using async communication the person can wait until they’re out of the flow and respond. This is one of the great things about email, and the worst thing about Slack.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by reificator on Thursday May 14, 2020 @02:15PM (#23183252)

I was using Slack a few years ago and I didn't have this issue. Everyone who chose to use it had IRC experience, and so immediately treated it as a fancier IRC. That includes a lack of expecting an immediate response.

But I can definitely see how people who didn't grow up on freenode et al might come in with different expectations around Slack responsiveness.

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by bbutterworth on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:04PM (#23168297)

for me slack is an async function. its on silent, the entire time. And my time slices are large (2±1 hours)

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by dkdk8283 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:55PM (#23171070)

I try to do this too but Slack updates the favicon when in do not disturb. It’s like catnip, plenty of dark patterns

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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever by ultrafez on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:54PM (#23173318)

There's an option in the Preferences to "Show a badge on Slack's icon to indicate new activity" which, when unchecked, may stop the behaviour you're describing.

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