This assumes said email is properly filtered and doesn't get lost in a sea of work spam. I also assert email is actually terrible at context; unless that is part of an existing thread, or again your filtering/sorting is great, you will often spend at least a paragraph just establishing context.
> It is well structured, well documented and offers coherent discourse.
You must have great coworkers who know how to communicate. I cannot say the same for everyone at my company. Email at many of the places I've worked can quickly devolve on more than 3-5 replies.
Worse than the work email spam at some of my previous jobs was the Slack spam - at least the email spam was work-related. Too many people substitute work for a social life and treat Slack like they’re on a group chat with friends.
> Worse than the work email spam at some of my previous jobs was the Slack spam
It’s annoying if not muted and you need to work. Why not do that?
A workplace with no chat and zero talk would be pretty grim.
If the company Slack doesn't have a #memes channel, I don't want to work there.
There's nothing wrong with social chat on Slack. It just needs to be either in a thread or, better yet, in a dedicated social channel.
Saying people shouldn't have social chat on Slack is like people shouldn't have social chat in the office kitchen because it's part of the same office complex.
And if they did that, I’d have nothing to complain about. That’s never been my experience though with Slack at work.
That’s unfortunate but it’s not a universal trend.
The problem here isn’t Slack, it’s poor Slack etiquette. However you can change etiquette at a company level.
@here I need an update on a ticket
@here were doing some it maintenance over the weekend in the middle of the night on a system no one uses