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I missed a beat, is slack hated now? And how does it relate to always-on? You can log off, even better, not have it on your phone but only on your work machine.

I missed a beat, is slack hated now? And how does it relate to always-on? You can log off, even better, not have it on your phone but only on your work machine. Anyhow, even if somehow Slack is taking the blame for always-on, I think it's definitely not the culprit. The problem is a toxic company culture. Even if you were to use only email it wouldn't fix a culture where people are not allowed time off.

elbasti 8y ago
For me the issue with slack isn't that it's always-on (because as you said, you can log off, or turn notifications off), it's that it's an unstructured forum for ideas. I think it foments shallow commenting/debating over deeper conversations and planning. Of course all these problems can be fixed with "culture" but I think the tool itself rewards instant-replies, since conversations quickly move into the past, where "out of sight is out of mind".