Thoughts on Slack, Culture, and Workplace Boundaries

Reading Zoe Schiffe's fascinating article on Away made me sick. TL;DR: CEO Steph Korey used Slack essentially as a tool to intimidate, overwork, and surveil her employees. From the piece:

Korey was infamous for tearing into people on Slack. “You could hear her typing and you knew something bad was going to happen,” says a former customer experience associate we’ll call Caroline. Yet while her feedback was almost always sent online, its effects were felt in the real world, often when employees burst into tears.

Time to unpack.