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I agree that they have other issues beyond Slack with respect to productivity, but playing Devil's Advocate, muting Slack has the downside of just creating a la
by eddieroger 10y ago
I agree that they have other issues beyond Slack with respect to productivity, but playing Devil's Advocate, muting Slack has the downside of just creating a large backlog of missed messages, and if the culture is to be dependent on it, mute only shifts distractions to later instead of eliminating them. This is worse if the culture holds impromptu Slack meetings that you can easily miss by being on mute. In that case it would be the culture and not the tool, admittedly, but any tool will have a similar problem.
- kethinov 10y agoFirstly, impromptu is bad. Work requires focus, not "oh look a squirrel!" People learn delayed gratification in life. The same goes for the urgency of someone in your org randomly deciding everyone needs to talk about my random thoughts right fricking now. Secondly, messages piling up is a feature, not a bug. You engage when you need a mental break and you're in an engagement mood. If other people are in that mood at the same time, great. If not, then if you force them to engage with you anyway you are harming their productivity. People need to learn this. People get in the zone at different times and this needs to be respected.