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Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, the future of work, and managing all those notifications

The Vergecast

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Is It Necessary to Work From Home?

One of the first things i said to our team was, ha, it's great to do all your life in chat. You actually need to pick up the phone a bunch because you can be more mean or more cutting in chat than you would ever be in person. So just tha concept that there are channels and other people can see this, who can see it exactly, i don't know if i want to have this conversation in front of my boss or random colleagues across the company. And it's very different. It's everything from the sociology, the etiquette, or what linguists call the pragmatics of it, tooke,. literally, how to operate the system and set policies...

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