When Becky Kane started interning at a productivity software company in 2014, she experienced a workplace rite of passage: drowning in Slack messages.
The company, Doist, had always been mostly remote, so Slack, the ubiquitous business communications platform, was the main way to connect with her new colleagues. Ms. Kane lives in Minneapolis, but Doist employees work around the world. “I definitely have an addictive personality,” says Ms. Kane, 29. Slack, with its signature mix of round-the-clock banter, GIFs, updates about serious work projects and small talk, took over her life. “It was so tempting to be there all the time,” she says.
She transitioned from intern into full-time marketer in 2015, and the messages kept coming—until 2016. That’s when her company quit Slack. Her workday dramatically improved, she says. These days, she typically logs in to Doist’s internal message board in the morning to check for project updates, logs out, and writes and edits until lunch with few distractions.
In the years since Slack made its debut in 2009, it’s helped cement instant messaging as an essential part of white-collar work. But many beleaguered workers found that it replaced email,
Kinda like how people have been pushing back against too much of spam mail by companies. Nobody listens to you until you have blocked them. Eases the burden of too many messages too.
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