Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r...
by falcolas on Monday May 25, 2020 @11:35AM
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What’s entertaining to me on this topic is that I am no more “immediately available” on slack than I am by email - I close out both when I want to get work done.
And, based solely on various productivity blogposts which come up on HN and Reddit, I’m not alone. I can even say that the number of us “going offline to work” types is growing with time.
Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r...
by nicoburns on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:19AM
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To me the big benefit of Slack over email is that Slack is only communication with actual humans. My email inbox is chock full of automated emails from various websites / services.
Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r...
by mgkimsal on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:36AM
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> To me the big benefit of Slack over email is that Slack is only communication with actual humans
Until folks in your org start adding in slack integration bots. I have multiple channels that are nothing but alert/notifications about systems. that separation may be useful, but it definitely requires some discipline - I've been on some teams where people wanted to throw in automated slack integration messaging in to the 'regular' channels "so we won't miss anything".
Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r...
by nicoburns on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:37AM
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Yeah, we have a few of those at work. But I've muted those channels. Too noisy to be useful. The only one I keep on is downtime notifications, which really do need to be responded to ASAP.
In my previous startup, A Slack account was the second thing I created for a new employee after an email account. Everything from real-time communication, screen-sharing, log/product/system health alerts, analytics to daily tasks summary were handled with the help of slack bots; we ourselves built a bot for the platform.
But the productivity benefits of real-time communications are dubious at best. Apart from alerts(read emergency), email communication is better than real-time chat IMO, as the lack of peer pressure to reply fast enables more thoughtful communication.
So to test this, In my current work(Startup Coaching) I communicate only via email with my clients, no phone calls, no chats. It's been over a year and it's been great for productivity for both myself & my clients; of course this has been possible because there's no emergency communication involved.
When I see people asking for discord channel in Internet forums/subreddit which has no use for a real-time communication, it worries me.