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Is everyone forgetting the biggest benefit of Slack? It's the transparency part. Important details are no longer privy to 1 or 2 individuals on the team in thei
by perseusprime11 10y ago
Is everyone forgetting the biggest benefit of Slack? It's the transparency part. Important details are no longer privy to 1 or 2 individuals on the team in their inboxes instead the whole team can see what's going on and can chime in if they disagree
- GrinningFool 10y agoIf you're in the right channel. If someone didn't make a new channel to discuss the idea more , and you missed the single line of text that mentioned it two hours ago. If you happen to be looking at the right channel at the right time. If the pertinent bits aren't lost in back scroll. I think your statement is true for a sufficiently small company with a limited number of channels. Less so for larger companies, or even small ones with dozens or hundreds of them.
- ec109685 10y agoSlack search is really good and can let you recover missed bits of information.
- GrinningFool 10y agoBut it's only helpful if you know what you need to search for. In the case of a conversation that happened in the past that you wanted to have input into - and either never learned about it, or only learned after a decision was reached - it doesn't help so much.
- dingaling 10y ago> Important details are no longer privy to 1 or 2 individuals on the team Sure they are, they just split-off into direct messages between themselves and return to the main channel to present the result of their discussion. Or don't even do that. Information-hoarding needs a cultural fix, not a technical solution. In my experience it usually occurs in companies with a blame-culture, so people confide between themselves and keep some information undisclosed as 'insurance'.