As a good consultant and contractor, Slack great at holding people - particularly decision makers, to account. Oh you forgot you told me to do this? Here's the

As a good consultant and contractor, Slack great at holding people - particularly decision makers, to account. Oh you forgot you told me to do this? Here's the message from 6 months ago. I'm excited to work with organisations who have executive staff that use Slack, but from talking with employees - even Stewart Butterfield stopped using Slack over the past few years except for company announcements. Companies that embrace open decision making, blameless (to a degree) culture and transparency who embrace Slack, and good work-life balance, are far and few. People who get mad about having too many channels simply are putting too much pressure on themselves. As long as you look at your DM's, when people tag you directly - or your close team's channel - you're using Slack correctly. If people expect you to view or have seen something elsewhere, you should have known about it through your manager, through direct tags/DM's or whatever your #very-important-announcement channel is. That's it.