Slack Continues Its Assault on Multi-Tasking and Manual Work
No, yesterday's updates won't eliminate multi-tasking. Make no mistake, though: Users will spend less time toggling between and among disparate applications.
Rock star Rachel Feintzeig over at The Wall Street Journal recently described how many employees suffer from incessant pings while on the clock. TL;DR: Notifications from disparate apps, systems, and devices tend to annoy and distract us. That's not good.
These chronic alerts aren't just annoying; as Feintzeig points out, tool overload is both prevalent and pernicious. (I'm biased here, but if only more companies invested in proper training, employees would know how to customize alerts and, you know, keep their sanity and maybe not quit. (That's a whole rant with me.)
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