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26-Jul-2017 15:32
The question is, what does this intrusion do to the delicate diplomacy of office life?
What happens when we bring our digital selves to work? Valued at .8 billion last year, Slack claims 5 million daily active users across workplaces that include 21st Century Fox, Dow Jones, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
It also makes the line between work and not-work blurrier than ever — the constant scroll of maybe-relevant chatter in your chosen Slack channels registers at times like the background noise of any other newsfeed.
For better or worse, it makes work life more like digital life, albeit a digital life where you can also smell what everyone else is eating for lunch.
“There was some borderline racist stuff,” she remembers.
Laura works in ad sales at a well-known tech company.
At some point over the last year, it started to feel, at least in a certain kind of office, as ubiquitous as those other social-media giants.
Like Facebook or Twitter, Slack induces the same anxious, attention-hungry rhythm in its users, the same need to endlessly refresh, and gives off the same illusion of intimacy in an ultimately public space.
Star the people you talk to most and they’ll stay at the top of your list, or search for any other employee by name and start a new conversation.
You can drop in and out of chat channels as the day goes on, or, if you’re a member of a particularly active channel, you might spend all day there, reading through the scroll.EDGE spoke to Jones as he prepares to celebrate his 60th birthday.