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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by teslafire124 on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:23PM (#28012541)
That's true, but the conversations are still going to happen elsewhere. Any work-related conversation can get derailed. It sounds like they are using it as a blanket excuse for suppressing discussions they don't want employees to have. It may be to just reduce noise, but I feel like a corporation like Apple would want to keep things under tight control.
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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by JumpCrisscross on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:29PM (#28012591)
> the conversations are still going to happen elsewhere

That's fine. This is the equivalent of water-cooler conversations.

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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by teslafire124 on Friday July 30, 2021 @05:35PM (#28012654)
Yet another reason why it's perplexing they use Slack. It's so easy for Slack channels to devolve into those kinds of chats.
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Re:Apple closing down internal Slack channels where employee... by duxup on Friday July 30, 2021 @09:52PM (#28014502)
Yeah and if I made the rule, I'd be okay with that.

Talking about work, that's fine.

It's just the nature of providing a forum/ medium so prone to problems that I would not want to do.

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