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To me, it reads like this: “those who log off of Slack are more productive” which matches my experience perfectly. My productivity shoots up as soon as I close

To me, it reads like this: “those who log off of Slack are more productive” which matches my experience perfectly. My productivity shoots up as soon as I close Slack.

antisthenes 3y ago
Depending on your role, communication on Slack could be as much as 50% of your job responsibilities. Not everyone is a line dev who codes 7 hours after a 10 minute standup.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
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  - TeMPOraL 3y ago
    Correct. Managers gotta manage, but code doesn't write itself either, and the constant push to turn software engineers into part-time faux-managers (all the responsibilities, none of control or status) isn't helping.
- groestl 3y ago
  > Not everyone is a line dev who codes 7 hours after a 10 minute standup. Funny enough, those often answer fastest. The busiest communicaters sometime don't answer for days.
  - dwaite 3y ago
    Because of how malicious notifications are by default in Slack (e.g. @here, @channel, bots you can't mute) and how poorly the catch-up flow is (e.g. no "unreads" view on mobile, I'm in 16 different slacks which have to be tabbed into individually), I tend to catch up 1, maybe 2 times a day. Similar to how when corporate email got pushed into a web view rather than being accessible via a native mail app; the only way I could manage things was to filter into topics, and some topics I only check once a week.
    - ruszki 3y ago
      What the previous commenter mentioned is kinda independent on the communication channel if it’s written.
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acchow 3y ago
And how does that affect the productivity of those who are trying to reach you?
- taneq 3y ago
  How does it affect the overall long term productivity of the team, I think is the real question.
- x0x0 3y ago
  It forces them to structure their work so they don't need constant realtime questions from teammates generating constant interruptions.
- jabroni_salad 3y ago
  If it wasn't important enough to warrant a phone call, probably not that much. I was getting a couple hundred IMs a day and I would say that less than five of them were actually worth an interruption.
lobocinza 3y ago
In my experience having Slack opened in Chromium/Brave cause massive lag when I alt-TAB.

To me, it reads like this: “those who log off of Slack are more productive” which matches my experience perfectly. My productivity shoots up as soon as I close Slack.

antisthenes 3y ago

Depending on your role, communication on Slack could be as much as 50% of your job responsibilities. Not everyone is a line dev who codes 7 hours after a 10 minute standup.

cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
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- TeMPOraL 3y ago
  Correct. Managers gotta manage, but code doesn't write itself either, and the constant push to turn software engineers into part-time faux-managers (all the responsibilities, none of control or status) isn't helping.
groestl 3y ago
> Not everyone is a line dev who codes 7 hours after a 10 minute standup. Funny enough, those often answer fastest. The busiest communicaters sometime don't answer for days.
- dwaite 3y ago
  Because of how malicious notifications are by default in Slack (e.g. @here, @channel, bots you can't mute) and how poorly the catch-up flow is (e.g. no "unreads" view on mobile, I'm in 16 different slacks which have to be tabbed into individually), I tend to catch up 1, maybe 2 times a day. Similar to how when corporate email got pushed into a web view rather than being accessible via a native mail app; the only way I could manage things was to filter into topics, and some topics I only check once a week.
  - ruszki 3y ago
    What the previous commenter mentioned is kinda independent on the communication channel if it’s written.
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acchow 3y ago

And how does that affect the productivity of those who are trying to reach you?

taneq 3y ago
How does it affect the overall long term productivity of the team, I think is the real question.
x0x0 3y ago
It forces them to structure their work so they don't need constant realtime questions from teammates generating constant interruptions.
jabroni_salad 3y ago
If it wasn't important enough to warrant a phone call, probably not that much. I was getting a couple hundred IMs a day and I would say that less than five of them were actually worth an interruption.

lobocinza 3y ago

In my experience having Slack opened in Chromium/Brave cause massive lag when I alt-TAB.