>I worry that people are trying fix org culture problems with communication software, which is unlikely to succeed. Agreed. If your work culture demands that y

>I worry that people are trying fix org culture problems with communication software, which is unlikely to succeed. Agreed. If your work culture demands that you answer every single slack message within 30 seconds, or forces you to be "online" constantly, you have bad work culture. This is not a issue that slack, or email, or texting, or phone calls can fix. You could argue that slack makes fostering these work cultures easier, and to that I would say it's still just bad management. Also - and this argument gets brought up a lot by slack haters - if that @here, or other notifications, are so impeding to your daily productivity, you might just have trouble focusing. Which isn't bad, but learn to deal with it instead of blaming Big Bad Slack. Hint: you can exit Slack and check it once per hour, every few hours, or even once a day. I've yet to see one real life example where people are forced to be online and respond within seconds of receiving a message.