“Slack, when it’s working for an individual organization, becomes this lightweight fabric for systems organization.
“A measure of success for us is going to be what percentage of DocuSigns are signed inside of a shared channel, or how many purchase orders and invoices and service tickets are opened inside shared channels,” said Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s cofounder and CEO, at a virtual event announcing Slack Connect. A company might use these shared channels to talk to its supply chain operators a venture capital firm might use it to bring all of its portfolio companies together.
So today, Slack has announced a tool called Slack Connect, designed to make it possible for up to 20 organizations to share “channels” between them. In addition to their own employees, they have business partners, vendors, and collaborators. In some cases, especially during the months-long work-from-home experiment of 2020, it’s even replaced the office itself.īut most workplaces don’t exist in a silo. It’s reorganized discussions around specific topics, added more transparency to those discussions, and made workplace communique a lot less formal (see: Slackmoji). It’s replaced water cooler conversation with silent DMs. It’s converted back-and-forth threads into chirpy instant messages. Workplace chat apps have existed for years, but few have “disrupted” office culture more than Slack.
0 kommentar(er)
