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The way I see it, Slack is built like a virtual open office, and it does that well. If you enjoy working at some open office and can focus with sales people bar
by mkl95 4y ago
The way I see it, Slack is built like a virtual open office, and it does that well. If you enjoy working at some open office and can focus with sales people barking close to your ear, you will enjoy Slack.
Slack may seem modern, but it became legacy software the moment WFH became widespread. It's a tool that actively works against your focus, which is one of the main benefits of not working at some office. This is not always intentional since the notification system is shoddy and struggles to sync devices.
Also, I turn off notifications for pretty much everything, but it doesn't prevent some teammate from messaging me during lunch for non urgent stuff despite having made it clear I'm "away". Slack cannot fix stupid, in fact it makes it worse. We should create tools that make us smarter instead.
- kjuulh 4y agoIn my team we treat slack exactly like an open office. So each day/week we choose a volunteer to handle slack for us, and if needed they can pull on the other team mates but in general we try to preserve a deep work flow for all the other members than the one on slack/support duty. There are also no expectations that the one on support duty does their normal work during this time. Instead we choose to do devrel work , like outreach, polish documentation and such. We are a platform engineering team so this approach might not be possible for others but it has probably been the best thing mentally since the start of working remotely.
- mkl95 4y agoI have deep respect for you guys. I'm currently in backend engineering and weighing a platform engineering offer. My job is all over the place, and my values align way more with the typical platform engineering culture, so I will probably make the switch.