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It's finally happening: Senior managers that used to scoff at using Slack and Zoom are getting on board with the technologies they’ve avoided using for years. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

It’s not as though digital collaboration tools are untested novelties:

- Slack has been around since 2014
- Zoom has 13 million monthly active users
- FaceTime has been available on iPhones for a decade
- Google docs has been out of beta since 2009 bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

But for every enthusiastic Slack user, there seem to be six workplace laggards who think it will be “too much work” to “add one more system” — by which they seem to mean “learn to use something other than email” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

📩 If, over the past week, you’ve found yourself reduced to begging employees to stop replying-all, or refrain from clogging in-boxes with messages such as “Thanks,” know that your pleas might be doomed to fail bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

People who are used to emails and phone calls are facing a steep learning curve.

Some have shared their screens only to reveal embarrassing open tabs (or personal folders called “DIVORCE”). bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

But with a bit of practice we’ll get better. Together, we're learning to:

💥 Use emoji replies on Slack
🔇 Mute ourselves when we’re not talking
⌨️ Eliminate VERY LOUD TYPING sounds
🚽 Turn our camera off when using the bathroom bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

By week three or 13 of this lockdown, we may wonder how we ever worked without them.

We may be hunkered down, but these tools let us hunker down together. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…