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Whenever you step away from Slack—to grab lunch, take a week off or just focus on a task for a few hours—you can use a custom status in Slack to manage your coworkers’ expectations. Your Slack...

Channels are one of Slack’s core features and the best way to organize diverse groups of people working on concurrent projects. They also create a deep and instantly searchable history of all the...

To understand the pressures and promise of today’s state of work, start with the people doing the work.  This is what set Slack off on a journey to survey 17,000 knowledge workers across 10...

Today’s workers are in the midst of an information overload epidemic. How bad? Columbia Business School professor Sheena Iyengar, an expert on choice, estimates that the average knowledge worker...

Slack admins are masters at the art of multitasking. They configure Slack for their organizations in precisely the right way, ensuring that the right people have access and all company policies are...

Whether you’re experiencing siloed inefficiencies and a lack of employee engagement or looking to give your business processes a facelift, almost every team has something to gain by examining and...

You just hired a new employee and you’re pumped. You can’t wait for her to share her ideas and contribute to overall team success. There’s just one important thing: she needs to be...

The world of work is changing—fast. And while business solutions today are often tool- or service-centric for organizations looking to stay agile, the best ones might actually hinge on improving...

Internal communications pros have a very particular set of skills. They work closely with executives to hone their message and ensure that top-down communication keeps employees informed. They plan,...

Developers, get excited: Spec 2019, the conference for anyone who builds on Slack, is coming up on October 22 and 23 at SVN West in San Francisco. We recently told the Slack community what Spec is...

There’s a common misconception among enterprise companies: Adopting the cloud-based collaboration software your teams want to use requires a non-negotiable tradeoff—security. We beg to...

Take any group of people—friends, family, coworkers—and there will eventually be conflict. But experiencing and managing conflict in the workplace every so often isn’t a sign of team failure...

While time-management strategies help you work faster and more efficiently, they can also help you work smarter. By leveraging tools and strategies that help manage our workload, we can focus on...

Each year, ineffective meetings cost American businesses an estimated $37 billion. The problem? Instead of scheduling time to reach decisions or stir up creative brainstorms, many workers simply...

If you haven’t heard of Magic Leap, you probably will soon. It’s the technology startup that created a head-mounted display that fuses 3-D imagery over real-world objects. It’s augmented...

If you subscribe to the philosophy of “Work hard and go home,” a motto of ours at Slack, then focus time is a precious commodity. One tried-and-true way to carve out more of it: connect your...

The most memorable moments in a career are often marked with difficult, constructive feedback. Before joining Slack, I was a senior security engineer at a major social media platform. While working...

Remote work isn’t just a trend these days; it’s a fact of life. According to a Gallup survey, nearly half of the American workforce has logged hours remotely. While some of these workers are...

Patients today often require convenient health care on their time. That means health-care providers frequently need technology solutions to help streamline the way they work and collaborate, while...

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