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Is anyone familiar with what data Slack makes available to management? Can they see a nice breakdown of when I was online?

ziddoap 7y ago
User ID, Username, Email, Account Creation, Account Type, Days Active, Messages Posted, Daily/Weekly Active Members, Daily/Weekly Members who Posted, % Public Messages, % Private Channel Messages, % Direct Messages. On a per channel basis you can see members who posted, members who viewed, changes in members who posted, reactions added, members who reacted, # messages posted, total membership count. Those are what I've found just poking around. I dont really check the analytics of our workspace so I may be missing some. It doesn't look like there is a super-easy way to look up the last time a specific member was online - but there very well could be depending on the plan. Or I could be missing where I look it up.
- ianlevesque 7y ago
  The full enterprise version lets you export the entire message history.
  - WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
    Sole exception, private messages.
paladin314159 7y ago
I don't think we have the most enterprise version of Slack, but as an admin the data available to me is # of days active of the last 30 days and # of messages sent over the last 30 days.
dudul 7y ago
I don't have an answer, but it always surprised me what people would say either in Direct Messages or in private channel. This is a corporate slack, I'm pretty sure management can access all conversations, even in DM or private channels.
- ziddoap 7y ago
  I know, at least at our tier, I cannot access private messages.
  - ereyes01 7y ago
    Even if weren't possible now, it may be possible in the future because Slack (in practice) owns and controls that data without any oversight from you. Anything you say might be deleted after a while, or might be held indefinitely.
    - ziddoap 7y ago
      Well... Yeah. I didn't intend to imply that it will never be a feature (it might already be in higher tiers), and I never intended to imply anything about Slack's data retention. I was just stating that at the moment, at my tier, I am unable to see private messages.
      - GauntletWizard 7y ago
        Your employer can always change your password and then login as you to read your private messages. It leaves behind a trace (you've gotta reset your password afterwards, they can't restore your old one), but it's a "workaround".
- chipperyman573 7y ago
  You can't directly access DMs, but if you pay slack enough to export data for data compliance (I think it's the most expensive tier but it may be a lower one, but definitely not the free one), DMs are exported in that file, so you can indirectly get access to DMs that way.

ziddoap 7y ago

User ID, Username, Email, Account Creation, Account Type, Days Active, Messages Posted, Daily/Weekly Active Members, Daily/Weekly Members who Posted, % Public Messages, % Private Channel Messages, % Direct Messages. On a per channel basis you can see members who posted, members who viewed, changes in members who posted, reactions added, members who reacted, # messages posted, total membership count. Those are what I've found just poking around. I dont really check the analytics of our workspace so I may be missing some. It doesn't look like there is a super-easy way to look up the last time a specific member was online - but there very well could be depending on the plan. Or I could be missing where I look it up.

ianlevesque 7y ago
The full enterprise version lets you export the entire message history.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
  Sole exception, private messages.

paladin314159 7y ago

I don't think we have the most enterprise version of Slack, but as an admin the data available to me is # of days active of the last 30 days and # of messages sent over the last 30 days.

dudul 7y ago

I don't have an answer, but it always surprised me what people would say either in Direct Messages or in private channel. This is a corporate slack, I'm pretty sure management can access all conversations, even in DM or private channels.

ziddoap 7y ago
I know, at least at our tier, I cannot access private messages.
- ereyes01 7y ago
  Even if weren't possible now, it may be possible in the future because Slack (in practice) owns and controls that data without any oversight from you. Anything you say might be deleted after a while, or might be held indefinitely.
  - ziddoap 7y ago
    Well... Yeah. I didn't intend to imply that it will never be a feature (it might already be in higher tiers), and I never intended to imply anything about Slack's data retention. I was just stating that at the moment, at my tier, I am unable to see private messages.
    - GauntletWizard 7y ago
      Your employer can always change your password and then login as you to read your private messages. It leaves behind a trace (you've gotta reset your password afterwards, they can't restore your old one), but it's a "workaround".
chipperyman573 7y ago
You can't directly access DMs, but if you pay slack enough to export data for data compliance (I think it's the most expensive tier but it may be a lower one, but definitely not the free one), DMs are exported in that file, so you can indirectly get access to DMs that way.