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Turn off Slack and you'll have your employees in WhatsApp groups. What do you prefer? Nobody is going back to email. If people behave unprofessionally on Slack
by aeyes 6y ago
Turn off Slack and you'll have your employees in WhatsApp groups. What do you prefer? Nobody is going back to email.
If people behave unprofessionally on Slack then that is because they are unprofessional. I've been working with different corporate chat tools for years and haven't seen any major drama. And if the former lunchroom conversation moved to Slack, you can now hold the bad actors accountable.
- wayoutthere 6y agoHeck the WhatsApp groups probably already exist. At my last company, the malicious shit (e.g. "marry, fuck, kill" lists of coworkers, racist / casteist memes, etc.) happened on WhatsApp, not the company chat platform. If you don't discourage a "frat boy" culture, one can develop outside your control. People who do that crap aren't stupid, so they'll keep it off company systems but they'll still do it.
- EForEndeavour 6y agoDid you say anything in any of these problematic WhatsApp groups to "discourage a 'frat boy' culture"? Or did you stay in the groups to quietly lurk, or did you laugh along to fit in?
- wayoutthere 6y agoI did quietly lurk until I came out as trans, when I stopped being invited to join them. No great loss to me, but you can understand why I was hesitant to speak up in them.