This was a huge plus when I decided to join the company. I've never been more productive and less distracted. I get to focus on work, instead of a daily deluge of emails some of which inevitably get lost.
Another benefit of moving this all to Slack, for me, is that the team communicates way more transparently than I've seen at any other company. We're plugged into what is going on (if we want to be), and the politics of "who is on what email thread" essentially evaporates. I use private messages on slack sometimes for super-sensitive stuff, but that's only happened a few times since I came on board.
Biggest downside? It's gonna suck if I ever have to take a job at a company with entrenched email culture :-(.
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This was a huge plus when I decided to join the company. I've never been more productive and less distracted. I get to focus on work, instead of a daily deluge of emails some of which inevitably get lost.
Another benefit of moving this all to Slack, for me, is that the team communicates way more transparently than I've seen at any other company. We're plugged into what is going on (if we want to be), and the politics of "who is on what email thread" essentially evaporates. I use private messages on slack sometimes for super-sensitive stuff, but that's only happened a few times since I came on board.
Biggest downside? It's gonna suck if I ever have to take a job at a company with entrenched email culture :-(.