>> 50k people in it spread across 5 cities ... I think it makes the whole company feel connected to each other It may help make you feel this way, but what typ

>> 50k people in it spread across 5 cities ... I think it makes the whole company feel connected to each other It may help make you feel this way, but what type of connection can you have with superfulous interaction in such a large population? Maybe you mean it helped you identify very small, niche subsets with which you have subsequently built a relationship? That makes more sense, but I'm highly akeptical that even those relationships are built in an IM network, more likely triggered by... You side-band, async focus is not how the vast majority of organizations use slack. They explicitly adopt it as the required (i.e. everyone participates) tool for immediate, synchronous communication.