• Slack vs Work

  When I first discovered slack it was instant love. It is much better than hipchat in the interface and integrations and even better than Lync for easy search and retrieval of messages. I was such a big proponent of slack that I went to each team member and made them install and onboard them. I even persuaded my team to buy a premium membership. Our company eventually bought a corporate license and everybody was slacking.It was an internet paradise, we were creating public groups, private gossip groups, intergrating everything from Jenkins to Jira to experimental bots. There were channels for an office location, fitness, ping pong, teams, events and so on. We installed native phone apps and now there is no escape. Whether we are at office, work, walk or sometimes in bed, we were constantly looking at slack. I justified all this usage because our teams are largely remote and slack seems the most logical way to keep in touch.Oh yes, it was useful and its impact pretty clear. Things that would have taken hours to co-ordinate can now be done in few minutes. Some information that could have been lost and have to repeated was easily retrieved. It was much easier to organize events, ask for opinions and also have an async chat with a colleague. But lets not mistake slack’s benefits with how it tampers with our brains. Any benefit doesn’t mean we constantly keep using it.Slack epitomizes the worst of the internet new, now and multi-tasking.An unrelenting new:[…]

  24.06.2021 | 6:21 קרא עוד...

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