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I can think of a few: - Long form discussion where people think before responding. - Greater ability to filter/tag/prioritize incoming messages. - Responses
by boredtofears 3y ago
I can think of a few:
- Long form discussion where people think before responding.
- Greater ability to filter/tag/prioritize incoming messages.
- Responses are usually expected within hours, not minutes.
- Email does not have a status indicator that broadcasts whether I am sitting at my desk at that particular moment to every coworker at my company.
- mlrtime 3y ago1 & 2 are human behaviors, not a technology. You can argue that a tech promotes a behavior but this sounds like a boundaries issue, not a tech issue. #2 I agree with you, again Slack is not perfect but better than email [my opinion] #4 Slack has status updates, email does not. So you can choose to turn this off, again boundaries.
- boredtofears 3y agoReal time chat environments are not conducive to long form communication. I've never been a part of an organization that does long form communication well on slack. You can call it a boundary issue - it doesn't really matter how you categorize the problem, it's definitely a change from email. Regarding #4, I can't turn off my online/offline indicator, I can only go online or offline. I can't even set the time it takes to go idle. These are intentionally not configurable in slack. I have no desire to have a real time status indicator in the tool I use to communicate with coworkers.