I'm surprised people are still using work chat like this. My workplace switched to Teams about 5 years ago. The app is of course janky and slow, but it had the

I'm surprised people are still using work chat like this. My workplace switched to Teams about 5 years ago. The app is of course janky and slow, but it had the side effect of pushing all the important conversations to emails and scheduled meetings. Teams integrates with Outlook well enough that I never have to second guess my schedule and all the chatter is now just DMs, informal group chats that I would actually care about, and a bunch of broader group channels that nobody is expected to look at very often (not even every day). I rarely feel distracted by chat anymore unless it makes sense because something is actually on fire.