We’ve been thinking about completely scrapping emails and going 100% on slack. Here’s reasons why we WONT be doing that:
1. It’s hard to hold people accountable to deadlines on slack. As someone who must set 20 tasks a day to their staff, I can’t remember half of them. Email ...
Is easier traceable, easier to find the deadline and easier to hold someone accountable without going through hundreds more messages that you sent between setting that task and chasing for it.
2. Slack has become the way to “chat at the water cooler”. Small talk, gossip, generic
Chat, is a big part of our slack now. We have multiple groups to keep convos focused, but strict tasks, documents, convos all get lost in it. Use email to separate it out.
3. You can’t bcc - I use this a lot when keeping people in the loop
4. You can’t copy and paste a convo easily, you get the date and time stamps attached which I nearly always don’t won’t and have to delete.
5. It can be hard to distinguish between day to day convo and serious requests. Don’t blend them
6. PA’s can’t act on behalf of you. Yes I now have a PA, and il NEVER go back. She organises my inbox, groups, calendar, invites ,and more - even acting on behalf of me. This cannot be done on slack
7. We need to speak to clients and not every client uses slack.
What’s your thoughts? Any more reasons of why slack can’t fully be the one tool a business uses?
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