> People’s obsession with Slack and chat apps (applies to open offices too) seems overly done in Silicon Valley. > After a decade of 70+ hour work weeks, you r

> People’s obsession with Slack and chat apps (applies to open offices too) seems overly done in Silicon Valley. > After a decade of 70+ hour work weeks, you really appreciate what is work and what isn’t. > I recognizing that promoting free flowing communication is important, but dorm room chat isn’t the solution. "Dorm room chat" is a great way of thinking and talking about it, and I think you can extend the metaphor really far. A lot of young people working in Silicon Valley and startups (not all, of course) see it partially as a lifestyle choice of sorts. Where it gets interesting and messy is– if your employees value that sort of thing, should you encourage it? Discourage it? I guess it depends on what you're trying to achieve. I agree completely with the philosophy that communications in general should be lean and tidy. It's interesting to observe that different people have different attitudes about this, and that every organization comes to its own sort of compromise.