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> It seems like most of the article complaints are cultural, more than they are about the platform itself I've heard this argument before. If you read again th
by Dave3of5 4y ago
> It seems like most of the article complaints are cultural, more than they are about the platform itself
I've heard this argument before. If you read again they say:
"slack empowers your worst people to overwhelm your best"
This isn't a culture thing it's a property of the entire industry. No company can stop employees doing this, not even in office. Slack on the other hand is a tool that actually promotes these interruptions.
It's like a table saw without the guard. Just because I haven't cut my fingers off doesn't make it safe, it just makes me lucky.
- tremon 4y agoI'm not sure I agree entirely. Yes, Slack can be a table saw without guard. But the guard solution for Slack is company culture: each team needs to have a proper front-desk process, and the manager needs to (viciously) defend his team members that are not on front-desk duty (if at all -- a good organization has a central front-desk process for all its teams). There are organizations that get this right.
- Dave3of5 4y agoNone of that actually solves the distractions problem really. The fact is that using slack makes it worse. I've actually tried a lot of the solutions talked about here and none of them actually work. Software like slack is literally designed to make people interrupt you and pull you away from productive tasks.