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No "Slack apps" or Slack used as a notifications dump in your org? You are lucky. But I would warn you: Slack doesn't solve the "stealing your attention issue"

• whstl 2y ago
  We add some apps ourselves to our own profiles (I have the Google Calendar one for example) but this is at least opt-in. The problem with email is that you subscribe to a service (or “get subscribed to”) and suddenly there’s 200 messages per week on your inbox that you gotta filter out and figure what the heck you’re gonna do with… The worst part is that you often NEED some of those notifications, a small portion of them at least, but an email notification is the shittiest form of notification ever when SaaS apps are involved, and SaaS apps rarely allow for good configuration granularity.
• brightball 2y ago
  The nice thing about those Slack integrations is that you can usually have a conversation with your team to adjust them for usefulness, such as better signal to noise ratio.
  • AlotOfReading 2y ago
    "usually" is the key word there. A previous employer had a "learning" team that used their slack bot to send unblockable DMs to everyone in the company every time they released optional employee trainings. "Work like an NBA player!" The manager was verbally abusive to anyone who brought it up as an issue too. They didn't program the bot very well though, because it had a separate employee->acct list from the org that you could modify to change who was messaged.