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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by nicoburns on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:19AM (#23300245)
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.
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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by mgkimsal on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:36AM (#23300919)
> 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".

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Re:A major reason for departures at Slack was “remote work r... by nicoburns on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:37AM (#23301539)
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.
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