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I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
I think it's unhealthy to expect something different.
I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
I just mute notifications for all but the most important channels, and sometimes even mute those while working. That way you only get a notification for @everyone-type mentions, personal mentions, and personal messages, which is not unlike email.
I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
Slack is the remote work equivalent of "butts in chair" management. If you need information, outline what you need and email the person; allow them time to respond. Document that in a knowledge base if the data must persist and be disseminated. If you need to hold a meeting, hop on Zoom and record it, while you have a participant document the output. If you need something immediately (and it better be important), you can call or IM.
EDIT: @frogpelt said it better.
"Try Slack with your team for free" should be become "Try Slack with your team for free with limitation of 10000 messages per month"
I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
Chat is pretty asynchronous for me. I only read or respond to things when my name is mentioned or if there's something particularly relevant or important going on. I just mute notifications for all but the most important channels, and sometimes even mute those while working. That way you only get a notification for @everyone-type mentions, personal mentions, and personal messages, which is not unlike email.
I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
I wondered why I was enjoying work without interruptions... Now, seriously, how do we convince people to go back to less synchronous forms of communication such as e-mail?
Thanks for the heads up I was wondering what was going on! In the future, linking to a company's status page (almost always located at status.companyurl) is even more helpful! https://status.slack.com in this case.
when i first checked status.slack.com does show up. Still i couldn't reach slack.com. That's why put that on the link. (Looks like once posted can't update the URL)