Slack Is Basically Facebook Now (www.theatlantic.com)

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The article's title covers everything. Slack simply serves as a form of social media for the office that reduces employee productivity.

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[-] SandmanXC@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago

✅paywall ✅clickbait title

I'm sure the article makes many salient points.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 9 months ago

Slack simply serves as a form of social media for the office that reduces employee productivity.

JFC, I have not seen such a worse take in many years. The Slack redesign was annoying and I wished Slack would stop making the UI worse each update, but it's still the lifeblood of our communication chain.

[-] Clarke311@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

My team communicates through gifs and emoji only

[-] 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

As long as they speak the language I don't foresee a los on productivity

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