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Is that an Apple-specific Covid response? Teams have been more, not less, siloed at the job I've had since Covid started. People bold enough to complain in big
by majormajor 5y ago
Is that an Apple-specific Covid response? Teams have been more, not less, siloed at the job I've had since Covid started. People bold enough to complain in big mega-channels hasn't happened (similar to how few people would complain in all hands the same way they'd complain at lunch).
- exBarrelSpoiler 5y agoPrior to Slack, intra-company communications at Apple have been historically limited. Just being able to ping anyone at an instant is a cultural sea change.
- majormajor 5y agoOh, did Apple not have any global IM at all before Covid? This is startling to me. I haven't had a job without Slack or an essentially-equivalent predecessor (Hipchat) in over eight years.
- saagarjha 5y agoNot really. If you wanted to contact many people usually you'd need to send an email to a list.