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Does anyone else have trouble paying attention to email at all nowadays? Particularly in workplaces that use Slack or other chat software. I only have the focu
by ninkendo 4y ago
Does anyone else have trouble paying attention to email at all nowadays? Particularly in workplaces that use Slack or other chat software.
I only have the focusing capacity to use one communication medium. I spend tons of mental energy making sure I reply to Slack threads and DM's, but at the end of all of it, my email inbox is sitting with thousands of unreads.
The article says "if it's important, they'll follow up [again over email]", but in my mind at this point, it's more like "if it's important, they'll hit me up on slack."
I think more generally, I hate having multiple communications systems. If we (at the workplace) generally move to Slack for communications, stop emailing me. I won't see it.
- kome 4y agoI do the contrary, i never even open slack, but i keep a 0 mail inbox. Slack is de facto, a way more annoying version of the email.
- 31835843 4y agoI go days without opening my inbox. When people send me emails I assume it’s like, FYI type stuff that I’ll find… someday?
- 121789 4y agoDepends on the company, I think. Current company barely uses email, but my old company was primarily email for anything important (mainly sharing deliverables and external communication)
- remram 4y agoI'm the opposite, my email is where the important stuff is. If you Slack me, GChat me, or contact me in any IM that doesn't have threads that I can mark back as "unread" if I'm busy or on the go... At best it's important enough that I send myself an email about it, to handle asynchronously. At worst I will never get back to you.