> I would only open Slack a few times a day. Like checking email. Why not just use email for it then? Why pay for Slack and use it as something that you can ha

> I would only open Slack a few times a day. Like checking email. Why not just use email for it then? Why pay for Slack and use it as something that you can have for free? In most organizations that I know Slack is not used like email at all, but instead like a never-ending conference call. And just like in conference-calls and meetings, you can avoid them, but if you never take part in them the rest will unavoidably perceive that as a lack of initiative and interest on your side. Even more importantly, you might miss some important information. And yes, that sense of pressure and urgency is totally self-inflicted, but that's how office politics work in real world and some tools are just amplifying it. So it's not about Slack, it's about using Slack in your environment, as flowed as it is...