Why employees love the software, and bosses don’t
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/11/slack-office-trouble/620173/
* a glowing BBC article * lit up with complaints * paid for Slack during their 2020 presidential campaigns * Salesforce would acquire Slack for nearly $28 billion * spin it off into the company that would become Slack * Read: What Slack does for women * From the November 2016 issue: The binge breaker * chatting away on work-sanctioned productivity software and not get a single thing done * called * where you flirt * office culture is performed * Read: Slack doesn’t want people using it for romance * management can access private messages and channels under certain circumstances * a party you get paid to attend * three teachers resigned from a Rhode Island high school * three senior Netflix executives were fired * From the January/February 2020 issue: A review of Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley * banned * were fired * CNBC ran a story that BuzzFeed would be going public * an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton * Slack quickly erupted * Read: The Slackification of the American home * purpose-built by the cleverest minds in tech to feel essential * November 2021